Second Pig Heart Transplant Recipient Dies
The second person to receive a pig heart transplant has died nearly six weeks after surgery, the patient’s Maryland doctors reported Tuesday.
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The second person to receive a pig heart transplant has died nearly six weeks after surgery, the patient’s Maryland doctors reported Tuesday.
Maryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died.
Lawrence Faucette, 58, a Navy veteran from Frederick, Maryland, was suffering with fatal heart disease.
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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.