Lawrence Faucette

Lawrence Faucette, 58, the second person to receive a pig-to-human heart transplant, passed away nearly six weeks after the groundbreaking procedure, as announced by his Maryland medical team on Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, suffering from heart failure and ineligible for a conventional heart transplant, received the genetically modified pig heart on September 20 Initially, the University … Read more

This groundbreaking surgery, performed by Dr. Bartley Griffith of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, marked only the second time this procedure has been attempted on a human. Lawrence Faucette, a 58-year-old patient with end-stage heart disease, has successfully undergone an innovative procedure involving a genetically modified pig heart transplant Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin, director … Read more