Second Person to Receive Pig Heart Dies Six Weeks After Transplant
Faucette had been making significant progress after the transplant.
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Faucette had been making significant progress after the transplant.
While the 58-year-old patient first showed signs of "significant progress" following surgery, he ultimately died about six weeks after the procedure.
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.
Researchers said they found signs of organ rejection, which the genetically modified tissue was supposed to prevent.
Just six weeks after an experimental transplant operation, the second living person to receive a genetically modified pig heart has died, doctors reported Oct 31. Lawrence Faucette was 58.