Surgeons have performed the world’s second genetically modified pig heart transplant.
The team from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) successfully performed the procedure on a 58-year-old American father of two, Lawrence Faucette, who had reached the end stage of heart disease.
Traditional human heart transplants were ruled out due to pre-existing peripheral vascular disease and complications related to internal bleeding, making the pig heart transplant his only hope for survival.
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