US Navy veteran 'cracking jokes' two days after pig heart transplant
Lawrence Faucette was facing near-certain death from heart failure before the operation in Maryland.
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US Navy veteran 'cracking jokes' two days after pig heart transplant
Lawrence Faucette was facing near-certain death from heart failure before the operation in Maryland.
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US Navy veteran 'cracking jokes' two days after pig heart transplant
Lawrence Faucette was facing near-certain death from heart failure before the operation in Maryland.
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US Navy veteran 'cracking jokes' two days after pig heart transplant
Lawrence Faucette was facing near-certain death from heart failure before the operation in Maryland.
Source: newsshopper.co.uk
Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man
Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life. He's only the second patient to undergo such an experimental feat. Doctors said Friday that the man was cracking jokes and able to sit in a chair two days after the transplant. The doctors at University of Maryland Medicine said 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette wasn’t eligible for a traditional heart transplant. While the next few weeks will be critical, doctors were thrilled at his early response to the genetically modified pig organ. The first person to get a pig heart survived just two mont...
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