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58-year-old Lawrence Faucette has become a medical milestone this month, being only the second living person in the world to have received a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig.
Lawrence Faucette is the second living human ever to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig. The first died two months after his procedure.
MONDAY, Sept. 25, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A second human patient has received a genetically altered pig heart as he battles the ravages of end-stage heart disease. The 58-year-old man, Lawrence Faucette, received the pig organ at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. The medical team was the same one that performed the
Lawrence Faucette, 58, becomes the second human to receive a genetically modified pig heart. (Photo : Nasa/Getty Images)A Three-Dimensional (3-D) Image Displays A Computerised Visualization Of A Human Heart.
Surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Centre, United States have performed a second successful transplant of a genetically modified pig heart on a 58-year-old patient, Lawrence Faucette, with end-stage heart disease.