2nd person to receive pig's heart dies 6 weeks after transplant
Despite extra precautions, 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette lived less time than the first recipient.
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Despite extra precautions, 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette lived less time than the first recipient.
Maryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died.
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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.
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 when he received the genetically modified pig heart in September. According to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the heart had seemed healthy for the first month after the highly experimental surgery. But doctors say it began showing signs of rejection in recent days and he died on Monday. The team last year performed the world’s first transplant of a pig heart into another dying man who s...