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WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.
Lawrence Faucette, a 20-year Navy veteran and a married father of two from Frederick, Maryland, has died after he underwent a highly experimental surgery for a pig heart transplant.
Lawrence Faucette, 58, received a genetically modified pig heart on September 20 due to ineligibility for traditional transplant. | World News
Lawrence Faucette, 58, the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig, has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery.
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20. […]