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.
Faucette initially came to the Maryland hospital out of options and expressed a wish to spend a little more time with his family. ‘He was deemed ineligible for a traditional transplant with a human heart due to his pre-existing peripheral vascular disease and complications with internal bleeding,’ Dr. Bartley Griffith, professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, who performed the surgery, told Fox News Digital.
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. Read more ⮕
The Second Person to Get a Pig Heart Transplant Just DiedLawrence Faucette died six weeks after undergoing the experimental procedure involving a genetically engineered pig organ. Read more ⮕
Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital saysLawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20. Read more ⮕
Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital saysLawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20. Read more ⮕
Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital saysLawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20. Read more ⮕
Maryland man who received second pig heart transplant dies, hospital saysLawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20. Read more ⮕
