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Maryland man who was second person to receive a pig heart transplant dies

Por: Los Angeles Times Science November 01, 2023

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Only the second person ever to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his doctors in Maryland announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart Sept. 20. According to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the heart had seemed healthy for the first... + full article



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