- cross-posted to:
- health@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- health@lemmy.world
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.
It’s a case where they either can’t get a human heart or their chances are so low… It’s better to give it to someone else. Good human hearts aren’t easy to come by.
If this gives someone a chance? Great. This will be their last resort.