Dhaniram Baruah
Indian heart surgeon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dhaniram Baruah is an Indian heart surgeon from Assam, known for his work in the field of xenotransplantation. He is popularly known as India's Pig Heart Doctor.[1] On 1 January 1997, he became the first heart surgeon in the world to transplant a pig's heart in a human body.[2] Although the recipient died subsequently, it was a precursor to the first successful pig-to-human heart transplant performed 25 years later by Bartley P. Griffith in January 2022.[3] While Griffith used a genetically modified pig's heart, Barua had transplanted a normal pig heart.[4] Barua is also the founder of Dr Dhaniram Baruah Heart Institute & Research Centre.[5] He can only communicate through hand gestures after a brain stroke left him unable to speak.[6]
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Dhaniram Baruah | |
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Nationality | Indian |
Education | MD; Glasgow University; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of England |
Known for | First pig-to-human heart transplantation |
Medical career | |
Profession | Surgeon |
Field | Cardiac Surgery |
Institutions | University of Maryland Medical Center |
Sub-specialties | Cardiothoracic surgery Heart transplantation Lung transplantation Cardiac surgery |
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