Second Man To Receive Pig Heart Transplant Dies 40 Days After Surgery
Similar surgeries have been unsuccessful in the past because the human body rapidly rejects animal organs.
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Similar surgeries have been unsuccessful in the past because the human body rapidly rejects animal organs.
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.
The University of Maryland Medical Center released a statement on the Oct. 30 passing of Lawrence Faucette, a 58-year-old patient with terminal heart disease who received the world’s second genetically-modified pig heart transplant Sept. 20 in a landmark cardiac xenotransplantation procedure.
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.