Man who received second historic pig heart transplant dies
FDA granted an emergency authorization for the surgery on Sept. 15 in the hope of extending his life.
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FDA granted an emergency authorization for the surgery on Sept. 15 in the hope of extending his life.
The second-ever recipient of a pig heart transplant, Lawrence Faucette, has died six weeks after the experimental procedure.
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.