The world's second pig heart transplant recipient has died six weeks after having the organ implanted, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced Tuesday. The patient, 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette a Navy veteran and retired lab technician at the National Institutes of Health only began showing signs that his body was rejecting the pig heart in the few days before his Oct. 30 passing.
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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.
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.