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.