One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and ...

For the second time ever, a pig heart has been transplanted into a living human recipient, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced on Friday.

Pig heart transplant operations are still not officially approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but the agency granted emergency authorization for the surgery on December 31.

When David Bennett Sr., 57, agreed to accept a pig heart as a replacement for his own failing one, he took a huge chance. His surgeon said he couldn't promise whether Bennett would survive an ...

In this photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, surgeons perform a pig heart transplant into Lawrence Faucette at the school’s hospital in Baltimore, Md., in September 2023.

Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat. Two days later, the man was cracking ...

HEALTH Pig heart recipient's ‘last wish’ was to help doctors learn from procedure, dying man said: ‘We will miss him' Lawrence Faucette, 58, regarded the experimental surgery as ‘his last ...

Pig heart valves, similar to those in humans, have been used successfully for transplants. A regenerative medicine company called Revivicor supplied the pig heart for the procedure, ...

Nearly six weeks after his surgery, the world’s second recipient of a genetically modified pig heart has died, the University of Maryland announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, a 58-year-old ...

One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and ...

For the second time ever, a pig heart has been transplanted into a living human recipient, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced on Friday.