Maryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died.
Lawrence Faucette’s wife, Ann, said her husband “knew his time with us was short and this was his last chance to do for others. He never imagined he would survive as long as he did"In a statement released by the hospital, Faucette’s wife, Ann, said her husband “knew his time with us was short and this was his last chance to do for others. He never imagined he would survive as long as he did.
Attempts at animal-to-human organ transplants — called xenotransplants — have failed for decades, as people’s immune systems immediately destroyed the foreign tissue. Now scientists are trying again using pigs genetically modified to make their organs more humanlike. Faucette, a Navy veteran and father of two from Frederick, Maryland, had been turned down for a traditional heart transplant because of other health problems when he came to the Maryland hospital, out of options and expressing a wish to spend a little more time with his family.
Many scientists hope xenotransplants one day could compensate for the huge shortage of human organ donations. More than 100,000 people are on the nation’s list for a transplant, most awaiting kidneys, and thousands will die waiting. A handful of scientific teams have tested pig kidneys and hearts in monkeys and in donated human bodies, hoping to learn enough for the Food and Drug Administration to allow formal xenotransplant studies.21-year-old spent $300 to start his sticker side hustle — Now it brings in up to $38,000 a day: I was ‘unprepared' to go viral
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Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital saysMaryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died
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Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital saysMaryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died
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Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital saysMaryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died
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Lawrence Faucette, Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant, diesThe second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday.
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Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital saysMaryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died.
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Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital saysMaryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died.
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