A Maryland man who received a pig heart transplant in a highly experimental surgery nearly six weeks ago has died, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, 58, a 20-year Navy veteran and a married father of two from Frederick, Maryland, had end-stage heart disease and was ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he underwent surgery to replace his heart with a genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20. The Maryland team performed the world’s first transplant of a heart from a genetically altered pig into another dying man last year. Pig heart transplantFaucette initially came to the Maryland hospital out of options and expressed a wish to spend a little more time with his family. Original article source: Maryland veteran who received genetically modified pig heart transplant has died, hospital says

Source: Fox News November 01, 2023 08:13 UTC