A 58 year old man, who was given a pig heart transplant in a highly experimental surgery almost six weeks ago, has died his doctors announced Tuesday.
Navy veteran, Lawrence Faucette from Frederick, Maryland, had end-stage heart disease and was ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he underwent surgery to replace his heart with a genetically modified pig heart on Sept. 20.
Faucette was the second person in the US to have a pig heart transpant. The first patient also died.
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Fox News reports: According to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the heart appeared to be healthy for at least four weeks and doctors expressed optimism in the treatment. They also withdrew the drugs that were initially supporting his heart. Then he began showing signs of rejection. Faucette died Monday.
Faucette’s wife, Ann, said in a statement released by the hospital that her husband “knew his time with us was short and this was his last chance to do for others. He never imagined he would survive as long as he did.”
Attempts at animal-to-human organ transplants — called xenotransplants — have failed for decades, as people’s immune systems immediately destroyed the foreign tissue.
Scientists have begun genetically modifying pigs to make their organs more humanlike.
The Maryland team performed the world’s first transplant of a heart from a genetically altered pig into another dying man last year.
The first patient, David Bennett, survived two months before the transplanted heart failed. The cause for the failure was not immediately clear but doctors said signs of a pig virus were later found inside the organ.
Lie down with dogs ,wake up with fleas.
When God calls you home and gives you warning, don’t fight it, make your peace and plan to go. Organ transplants are an abomination to God. So many things wrong with it. You create a market that organizes orphans to be harvested. Gives doctors incentives not to save a patient with some good organs to harvest. It may be unfair to the person that needs an organ, but what about the potential person that has to donate the organ?
I will never accept an organ transplant. I will accept my fate.
My childhood buddy was in a fight with someone who falsely accused him of stealing his Harley Davidson. He smashed his head on the sidewalk and was unconscious. Ottawa doctors told his family he had brain damage so talked them into signing permission to unplug him just like a day later or less. I suspect the doctors harvested his organs premature. It happened so quick I don’t think they gave them enough time to mull over it, at least a few days. I saw him in the casket and I can’t believe what they told me. He signed away his organs on his drivers license.
exactly the case I am talking about. doctors can make big money. who would know? but them.
I saw many years ago a dead pig someone poked in a puddle it had like 12 legs and looked like from a horror movie mutated. It had brandings on it Heartland farms ❤️. My guess the genetic chimeras to use pigs for organ harvesting. We never see what they actually are doing in secrecy…
Gee, what could possibly go wrong with having the organs/DNA of another species inside you?! (major SARC)
It’s a road that no one should be going down.