{"id":7544,"date":"2023-10-25T06:25:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T13:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=7544"},"modified":"2023-10-25T06:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T13:25:43","slug":"grateful-to-be-alive-man-continues-to-heal-one-month-after-pig-heart-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/10\/25\/grateful-to-be-alive-man-continues-to-heal-one-month-after-pig-heart-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Grateful to be alive:&#8217; Man continues to heal one month after pig heart transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"7544\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>By Eric Lagatta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As he works hard to recover, Lawrence Faucette maintains his dream of soon returning home one month after he became&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2022\/01\/10\/human-pig-heart-transplant\/9152951002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the second person<\/a>&nbsp;to receive the transplanted heart of a pig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though highly-experimental, the procedure was seemingly the 58-year-old man&#8217;s last hope to extend his life after health problems made him ineligible for a traditional heart transplant. But so far, his doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine say Faucette&#8217;s new heart is functioning well and showing no signs of rejection. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2023\/10\/24\/maryland-man-lawrence-faucette-one-month-pig-heart-transplant\/71298287007\/\">Read the full story <\/a>in USA Today.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"7544\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading By Eric Lagatta As he works hard to recover, Lawrence Faucette maintains his dream of soon returning home one month after he became&nbsp;the second person&nbsp;to receive the transplanted heart &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/10\/25\/grateful-to-be-alive-man-continues-to-heal-one-month-after-pig-heart-transplant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Grateful to be alive:&#8217; Man continues to heal one month after pig heart transplant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":4054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,5,336,337],"tags":[301],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1177","post_likes_plusCounter":"","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7545,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7544\/revisions\/7545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7544"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=7544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}