[KALKI]

IF I WAS IN A SIMILAR SITUATION, HAVING INTERNAL ORGANS REPLACED WITH A COWS HEART OR
WHATEVER I WOULD FEEL...WEIRD

THE GREY AREA HERE IS, COWS ARE NOT CONSIDERED "FILTHY" CREATURES AS PIGS ARE IN ISLAM....

TWO ARTICLES:

What brought this question to my mind was the approaching use of pig hearts for human implantation.

The pigs will be cloned, their DNA combined with genes from the intended recipients to help avoid rejection.

This work should come to fruition within a decade.

At that time, the question of whether a Muslim or Jew can receive a pig heart in order to avoid dying of heart failure will become real.

If it's forbidden to eat anything pork-related, then surely it must be a far greater transgression to allow part of a pig to become part of one's own body.

Wouldn't you think?

You'd be wrong.

It's OK to receive a pig valve if you're a Muslim.

Same holds true if you're Jewish.

But a beating pig heart?


http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/01/05/125423.php

Anatomical study on the surgical technique used for xenotransplantation: porcine hearts into humans.


Abstract
BACKGROUND:
The pig heart is an ideal graft for orthotopic cardiac xenotransplantation regarding its physiological attributes and ready availability. Although single clinical attempts have been performed since the 1960s, details concerning the surgical technique of pig-to-human transplantation have never been reported. The present investigation should verify which anatomical differences between humans and pigs require special care in cardiac xenotransplantation.

MATERIAL AND METHODS:
We transplanted four pig hearts into human thoraces after autopsy. Implantation was performed using both the biatrial (modified Shumway) and bicaval techniques. The implanted hearts were not perfused.

RESULTS:
The four-legged walk of the pig implies a more transverse heart position and therefore a different outflow-angle of the great vessels. Accordingly, the thin-walled pulmonary artery and the superior vena cava (in bicaval technique) tend to kink and narrow. A special feature of porcine anatomy is the left azygous vein that empties into the coronary sinus. It must be ligated before the implantation.

CONCLUSIONS:
Keeping the porcine anatomical particularities in mind, technical problems in pig-to-human heart transplantation can be avoided. The anastomosis of the pulmonary artery requires special care. By using the biatrial technique surgeons can prevent imminent stenoses of the caval vein anastomoses.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17644115