Second-ever pig heart transplant recipient dies 6 weeks after surgery: ‘We will miss him tremendously’

Second-ever pig heart transplant recipient dies 6 weeks after surgery: ‘We will miss him tremendously’

The world’s second pig heart transplant recipient has died six weeks after having the organ implanted, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced Tuesday. The patient, 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette — a Navy veteran and retired lab technician at the National Institutes of Health — only began showing signs that his body was rejecting the pig … Read more