758300login-checkSecond person to receive pig heart transplant dies, Maryland hospital says |
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 dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20. Read the full article in CBS News.
758300login-checkSecond person to receive pig heart transplant dies, Maryland hospital says |