Surgeons have successfully transplanted a pig's heart into a 58-year-old Navy veteran who faced near-death from heart failure and was ineligible for a traditional heart transplant.
"Nobody knows from this point forward. At least now I have hope and I have a chance," Faucette, from Frederick, Maryland, said in a video recorded by the hospital before the operation.
Surgeons at the University of Maryland have performed the second pig heart transplant in order to save a man's life who couldn't have a normal transplant. It took over 300 pages of documents filed with FDA, but the Maryland researchers made their case that they’d learned enough from their first attempt last year – even though that patient died for reasons that aren’t fully understood – that it made sense to try again.
Possibly more important, while Faucette has end-stage heart failure and was out of other options, he wasn’t as near death as the prior patient., the hospital said.
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