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A Maryland man is dead after getting the second pig heart transplant in history.

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

Lawrence Faucette, the second living person to receive a genetically modified pig heart in a transplant, has died six weeks after the experimental procedure. The University of Maryland Medical Center, where the experimental procedure had been performed, said the heart began to show signs of rejection in recent days.

According to Lawrence Faucettes doctors, for the first month, the transplanted heart appeared to be functioning well

Maryland researchers successfully transplanted a pigs heart into a dying man last year, setting a record in the process

The second man to ever receive a pigs heart has died six weeks after surgery. His doctors said his last wish was for the transplant team to make the most of what they learned from the experience.

Six weeks after surgery: Man dies after pig heart transplant. At first, his body had accepted the organ. At the beginning of 57, doctors in the USA transplanted a genetically modified pig heart into a patient who had a life-threatening heart disease for the first time. The then <>-year-old survived for about two months. In a spectacular case in 2022, a baboon heart was implanted in a non-viable newborn girl in California. It died three weeks after the operation.

Lawrence Faucette, 58, died nearly six weeks after receiving only the second-ever heart transplant from a pig.

Lawrence Faucette, who had terminal heart disease, received a pig heart genetically altered to be compatible with humans

Despite extra precautions, 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette lived less time than the first recipient.