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WASHINGTON--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.... Bartley Griffith, who performed the transplant, told The Associated Press.... Muhammad Mohiuddin, the Maryland team’s xenotransplantation expert....

In a first-of-its kind operation, surgeons successfully implanted the heart of a genetically modified pig into a human patient, saving his life after he’d previously been deemed ineligible for a traditional heart transplant.... “ It creates the pulse, it creates the pressure, it is his heart, ” Dr Bartley Griffith, the director of the cardiac transplant program at the medical center, told The New York Times.... We are thrilled, but we don’t know what tomorrow will bring us....

Listen 6 min Share Comment on this story Comment Add to your saved stories Save Dying from heart failure and ineligible for a human heart transplant, Lawrence Faucette knew that the last chance he had at extending his life was to receive a heart transplanted from a pig.... He was a man who was always thinking of others, especially myself and his two sons.” The announcement of Lawrence Faucette’s death comes about 19 months after David Bennett Sr., the first person in the world to receive a gene

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for September 21 Fox News Flash top headlines are here.... Bartley Griffith, who performed the transplant, told The Associated Press.... That could be as simple as sitting on the front porch and having coffee together." There’s a huge shortage of human organs donated for transplant....