2023-11-01 00:05:15
USA
Pig heart transplant – second patient also dies
The first patient with a transplanted pig heart only survived for two months. Now 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette has also died.
Published1. November 2023, 01:05
Lawrence Faucette lived with a pig’s heart for almost six weeks, then he died.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
The first patient to receive a pig heart transplant only survived a few weeks.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
The 58-year-old “knew that his time would be short”.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Lawrence Faucette, the second man to receive a pig heart transplant, has died.
He survived for a total of almost six weeks and died on Monday.
His heart recently showed rejection reactions, and what happened to the heart is now being analyzed.
A man in the US state of Maryland almost six weeks ago The heart of a genetically modified pig was implanted, is dead. Lawrence Faucette died on Monday, the treating doctors said on Tuesday. He was 58 years old. Faucette had suffered from a life-threatening heart defect, but was for a conventional heart transplant out of the question. On September 20th he had a pig’s heart inserted.
In the first four weeks following the procedure, his heart appeared healthy, but recently it showed rejection reactions, said the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The surgeon in charge, Muhammad Mohiuddin, announced that his team would now analyze what happened to the heart.
“Knew his time would be short”
Faucette’s wife Anne also released a statement through the university hospital. Her husband “knew that his time with us would be short.” “He never imagined he would survive this long.”
Faucette was the second person to receive a pig heart transplant. The team from Maryland attempted the world’s first transplant of its kind last year. The patient, David Bennett, only survived for two months. The heart failed for reasons that are not entirely clear. Signs of a swine virus were found inside the organ. For the trial with Faucette, among other things, the virus tests had been improved.
Attempts to transplant organs from animals to humans – so-called xenotransplantations – have failed for decades because the human immune system immediately destroyed the foreign tissue. Scientists have now genetically modified the pigs so that their organs are more similar to those of humans. Scientists hope that xenotransplants can one day make up for the severe shortage of human organ donations.
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