A human patient with heart disease received a heart from a pig that had been genetically engineered to avoid rejection. While initially successful, the experiment ended two months later when the ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

An aortic dissection is an emergency with your aorta, which is the largest blood vessel in your body and the main artery that takes blood from your heart to the rest of your body. In an aortic ...

Lawrence Faucette, the recipient of the world’s second genetically modified pig heart transplant, has died nearly six weeks after the surgery, as announced by the University of Maryland Medical ...

One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and ...

It's been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig – and a hospital video released Friday shows he's working hard to recover.Lawrence ...

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. Two days later ...

If the tear occurs in the first part of the aorta, in the front of the chest, it is called a type A dissection. It can extend towards the heart causing leak in the aortic valve and bleeding in the ...