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The second person to ever undergo heart surgery to receive a genetically modified pig heart, Lawrence Faucette, passed away on Oct. 31, six weeks after the transplant. As it continues to be studied, this operation could lead to a potential breakthrough in heart transplantation.
Lawrence Faucette, 58, a Navy veteran from Frederick, Maryland, was suffering with fatal heart disease.
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.
Similar surgeries have been unsuccessful in the past because the human body rapidly rejects animal organs.
Faucette was a Navy veteran and retired lab technician