Tag: 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…

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…