The University of Maryland Medical Center released a statement on the Oct. 30 passing of Lawrence Faucette, a 58-year-old patient with terminal heart disease who received the world’s second genetically-modified pig heart transplant Sept. 20 in a landmark cardiac xenotransplantation procedure.
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 University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is the state’s public health, law, and human services university devoted to excellence in professional and graduate education, research, patient care, and public service.
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