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Lawrence Faucette, the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his doctors announced Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.
The first person to receive a pig heart transplant died on Tuesday, two months after the procedure, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced. David Bennett Sr. was 57, ...
The 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. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was ...
The first person to receive a genetically engineered pig heart, David Bennett, did so in January 2022.The heart had the same gene edits as Faucette’s, and the transplant was also performed by ...
A newly discovered pathway between the heart and brain may explain why healthy people faint. The pathway appears to carry signals from the heart's lower pumping chambers to an area of the ...