The world’s second pig-to-human heart transplant was performed on Wednesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Lawrence Faucette, the 58-year-old man who received the transplant ...

Lawrence Faucette, the 58-year-old man who in September became the second person in history to receive a genetically modified pig heart transplant at the University of Maryland Medical Center ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- The University of Maryland Medical Center has shed light on the death of a man who received a modified pig's heart in a breakthrough transplant in Baltimore. An autopsy report ...

Lawrence Faucette, 58, patient suffered from terminal heart disease. He received the transplant at the University of Maryland Medical Center on September 20 and went on to live for six weeks.

a medical team at the University of Maryland Medical Center announced Friday that, for only the second time in history, it had transplanted a heart from a genetically engineered pig into a human.

Mr. Faucette, 58, received a genetically altered pig heart at the University of Maryland Medical Center.Credit...University of Maryland Medical Center The transplantation was performed by Dr ...

The University of Maryland Medical Center, where the experimental procedure had been performed, said the heart began to show signs of rejection in recent days. “Mr. Faucette’s last wish was ...

He was in end-stage heart failure on Sept. 14 when he was admitted to the University of Maryland Medical Center, and shortly before the surgery, his heart stopped and he had to be resuscitated.