The eight-hour operation took place in Baltimore at the University of Maryland Medical Center on Jan. 7 and officials there said he may be able to recover beginning as early as today without the help of a heart-lung bypass machine.
David Bennett Sr, is doing well, surgeons said. He decided to “gamble on the experimental treatment” because he would have died without a new heart and had no other treatment options available.
Bennett’s doctor, Dr. Bartley Griffith, pointed out that while the heart is working and looks normal, no one knows what tomorrow will bring as this is the first time this procedure has been done.
