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Just six weeks after an experimental transplant operation, the second living person to receive a genetically modified pig heart has died, doctors reported Oct 31. Lawrence Faucette was 58.

Navy veteran Lawrence Faucette, 58, survived for six weeks post-operation

The second recipient of a pig heart transplant has passed away, highlighting the challenges in xenotransplants and organ shortages

Maryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died.

The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday. Lawrence...

Last year the Maryland team performed the world's first transplant of a heart from a genetically altered pig into another dying man who died two months after surgery.

According to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the heart had seemed healthy for the first month but began showing signs of rejection in recent days.

Maryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died. Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant

Maryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died. Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant

The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery , his Maryland doctors has...