Michigan man, 58, receives the state's first 'heart in a box' operation as doctors transplant the still-beating organ in a revolutionary surgery READ MORE: New Jersey woman with TWO terminal diseases given PIG kidney By Emily Joshu Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 18:54, 27 June 2024 | Updated: 19:14, 27 June 2024 e-mail View comments A man in Michigan has become the first in the state to receive a new 'miracle' heart that was transplanted while still beating. Ken Miller, 58, has spent more than a decade battling heart failure after suffering a heart attack in 2013.
The event forced him to retire from his 30-year job in the dairy industry, and doctors told him there was little they could do until he received a new heart . Over the next few years, Mr Miller's heart became so damaged that it grew to twice the normal size, and he went into kidney failure as well. But on his 58th birthday, the father and grandfather learned he would be receiving a new heart and kidney, which he said gave him 'a new lease on life.
' 'I think it's simply a miracle,' he said. Ken Miller, 58, became the first patient in Michigan to receive a beating-heart transplant (pictured here with lead surgeon Dr Kyle Miletic) Mr Miller, a father and grandfather, had been in heart failure for over a decade following a heart attack. He also received a new kidney Mr Miller is one of just 70 Americans who has received a beating-heart transplant, an intervention aimed at solving the demand for more than 3.
