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. Lawrence Faucette died Monday.
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Just six weeks after an experimental transplant operation, the second living person to receive a genetically modified pig heart has died, doctors reported Oct 31. Lawrence Faucette was 58.