I take offense to the article about Arnold’s “pig valve” (“Schwarzenegger’s Friends Swoop In to Defend His Honor,” March 2). I had open heart surgery in 1978, and they put in a pig valve.

Barbara Walters??? faulty heart valve was replaced with one from a cow, she told her “View” audience via Skype. But a pig or even a sheep could have been the donor instead, according to ...

The pig-heart-valve-skeleton-with-human-heart-valve-cells was then successfully transplanted into an immune-compromised rat. It lasted for two months, a duration that Wang says is equivalent to ...

Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) underwent five hours of surgery at Inova Fairfax Hospital to replace a leaking pig valve installed in his heart 10 years ago and to repair another heart valve.

She was living in Traverse City at the time and her cardiologist recommended a surgical aortic valve replacement using pig tissue. Six months later, she also underwent open-heart bypass surgery to ...

He explained having undergone an experimental operation, during which a pig's valve was transplanted into his heart. He said without this surgery, he would probably be dead by now. Christopher ...