Second Person to Receive Pig Heart Transplant Dies After Six Weeks
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Mohiuddin also expressed gratitude to Faucette and his family for enabling us to continue to make significant advancements towards making xenotransplants a reality.
“Faucette was a scientist who not only read and interpreted his own biopsies but who understood the important contribution he was making in advancing this field,” he remarked.
Xenotransplantation - the animal-to-human transfer of cells, tissues and organs - is a highly experimental medical field that seeks to solve the organ-shortage problem.
Both Faucette and Bennett were too sick with end-stage heart disease to receive traditional transplants that use organs from deceased humans.
Both of the patients received hearts from pigs that had been genetically modified to make their organs better suited for a human body, including the deletion of a gene to prevent the pig heart from growing.
More than 100,000 people in the United States are on the national transplant waiting list.
One more person is added to the waiting list every 10 minutes. Kidneys are the most needed organ, with 85% of patients in need of a kidney transplant.
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