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Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital says
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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.
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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.
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 rejectio…
WASHINGTON >> 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 today.
Lawrence Faucette, the recipient of the world’s second genetically modified pig heart transplant, has died nearly 6 weeks after the surgery, the University of Maryland Medical Center said.
Last year the Maryland team performed the world's first transplant of a heart from a genetically altered pig into another man who died two months after surgery.
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