The pig in the heart

The pig is much more than meat, you get hundreds of different products, some related to health such as heart valves or heparin, an anticoagulant molecule essential in blood transfusions or open heart operations. We will know the case of Joan Fàbregas a patient with a cardiac abnormality who is implanted with a prosthesis of porcine origin.
Speakers Bernat Romero and Ferrer, cardiac surgeon at the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, Domingo Santiago, perfusionist coordinator of the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, Carlos Grande, responsible of heparin production at Bioibérica and patients Joan Fàbregas and Mónica Rodríguez.