It’s been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig –- and hospital video released Friday shows he’s working hard to recover.
Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant because of other health problems when doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine offered the highly experimental surgery.
In the first glimpse of Faucette provided since the Sept. 20 transplant, hospital video shows physical therapist Chris Wells urging him to smile while pushing through a pedaling exercise to regain his strength.
Did they kill the pig? Or was it already dead?
I think it is a genetically modified pig they created to be less prone for rejection in human bodies. So I believe they killed the pig on the operating table when they finished removing the heart. All of this is entirely speculation on my part and if anyone knows more or did some actual research please feel free to correct me.
