Hospital says Maryland man dies after pig heart transplant
A Maryland man is dead after getting the second pig heart transplant in history.
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A Maryland man is dead after getting the second pig heart transplant in history.
The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery.
Lawrence Faucette, the second living person to receive a genetically modified pig heart in a transplant, has died six weeks after the experimental procedure. The University of Maryland Medical Center, where the experimental procedure had been performed, said the heart began to show signs of rejection in recent days.
According to Lawrence Faucette's doctors, for the first month, the transplanted heart appeared to be functioning well
Maryland researchers successfully transplanted a pig's heart into a dying man last year, setting a record in the process