Pig heart transplant recipient has died after 6 weeks
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.
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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.
Maryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died.
The world's second recipient of a pig heart transplant died this week, almost six weeks after the procedure.
Faucette had been making significant progress after the transplant.
According to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the heart had seemed healthy for the first month but began showing signs of rejection in recent days. Lawrence Faucette died Monday.