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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.