Lawrence Faucette, a 58-year-old Maryland man, is the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig.
It's been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig — and hospital video released Friday shows he's working hard to recover.Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine offered the highly experimental surgery.In the first glimpse of Faucette provided since the Sept.
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.Pig kidney works in human body for over a month, in latest step forward in animal-human transplantsIn Friday's hospital video, Faucette's doctors said the pig heart has shown no sign of rejection.
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