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The second person ever to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, doctors have said.
Lawrence Faucette, 58, received the organ transplant at the University of Maryland‘s Medical Center last month in end-stage heart failure but was deemed ineligible for a traditional human heart transplant because of an underlying medical condition.
The father-of-two and 20-year Navy veteran was healthy for the first month after the transplant from a genetically-modified pig, doctors said.
But in recent days his body began to show signs of rejecting the organ — which is also the most significant challenge with human transplants. He died on Monday.
Mr Faucette lived with a pig heart for 40 days, which was not as long as David Bennett — the first person to receive a pig heart — who lived for 60 days after the operation.
Mr Faucette’s wife Ann said in a statement that her husband ‘knew his time with us was short and this was his last chance to do for others’.
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