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WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 Faucette, a 20-year Navy veteran and a married father of two from Frederick, Maryland, has died after he underwent a highly experimental surgery for a pig heart transplant.

Lawrence Faucette, 58, the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig, has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery.

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20. […]

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.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: 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.

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.

The patient, who had terminal heart disease, had displayed some initial signs of rejection. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The second-ever recipient of a pig heart transplant, Lawrence Faucette, has died six weeks after the experimental procedure.