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>Bennett’s doctors said he had heart failure and an irregular heartbeat, plus a history of not complying with medical instructions.
>Patients may see Bennett’s death as suggesting a short life-expectancy from xenotransplantation, but the experience of one desperately ill person cannot predict how well this procedure ultimately will work, said ethics expert Karen Maschke of The Hastings Center. That will require careful studies of multiple patients with similar medical histories.