The second patient to undergo an experimental procedure to receive a genetically modified pig heart transplant at University of Maryland Medical Center has died.
In the second surgery of its kind, a Maryland man who received a genetically modified pig heart is doing well and has no sign of rejection or infection about a month after the procedure, according to CNN. In September, 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette had a failing heart when he was admitted to the University of Maryland […]
It’s been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig –- and hospital video released Friday shows he’s working hard to recover. Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine offered the highly experimental surgery. In the first glimpse of Faucette provided since the Sept. 20 transplant, hospital video shows physical therapist Chris Wells urging him to push through a pedaling exercise to regain his strength.