Second person to receive pig heart transplant dies, Maryland hospital says
Last year the Maryland team performed the world's first transplant of a heart from a genetically altered pig into another dying man who died two months after surgery.
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Last year the Maryland team performed the world's first transplant of a heart from a genetically altered pig into another dying man who died two months after surgery.
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.
Maryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died. Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant
Maryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died. Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant
The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery , his Maryland doctors has...