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The second man to ever receive a pig's 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.