More people need transplants than there are organ donors. Pigs might be a solution
The need for more transplant organs is immense and growing.
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The need for more transplant organs is immense and growing.
(CNN) — Last summer, after more than a decade of illness, Lawrence Faucette and his wife, Ann, faced the hard reality that the end of his life was near.
Martine Rothblatt sees a day when transplantable organs and 3D-printed ones will be readily available, saving countless lives—including her daughter’s.
Lawrence Faucette, the second person to have received a transplanted heart from a pig, has died. The 58-year-old from Frederick, Maryland, was first admitted to the University of Maryland Medical Center in September, after experiencing heart failure symptoms. Due to his pre-existing heart disease and other conditions, he was not eligible for a traditional heart […]
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The second person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Oct. 31.