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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, received the organ at a hospital in Maryland because he 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

He "knew his time with us was short," his wife said. "This was his last chance to do for others."

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.

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.

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

The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday.

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