The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has reached the one-month mark and a hospital video shows he's working hard to recover.
In this image from video provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Lawrence Faucette, a pig heart transplant patient, works with a physical therapist at the school's hospital in Baltimore, Md., on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine offered the highly experimental surgery.
“That’s going to be tough but I’ll work it out,” Faucette, 58, replied, breathing heavily but giving a smile.of a heart from a genetically altered pig into another dying man. David Bennett survived just two months before that heart failed, for reasons that aren’t completely clear althoughlater were found inside the organ. Lessons from that first experiment led to changes before this second try, including better virus testing.
A hospital spokeswoman said Faucette has been able to stand and physical therapists are helping him gain strength needed to attempt walking.
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