{"id":174517,"date":"2023-10-20T23:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T04:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/month-after-pig-heart-transplant-maryland-man-pushing-through-tough-physical-therapy"},"modified":"2023-10-20T23:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T04:22:21","slug":"month-after-pig-heart-transplant-maryland-man-pushing-through-tough-physical-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/month-after-pig-heart-transplant-maryland-man-pushing-through-tough-physical-therapy","title":{"rendered":"Month after pig heart transplant, Maryland man pushing through \u201ctough\u201d physical therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/month-after-pig-heart-transplant-maryland-man-pushing-through-tough-physical-therapy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a month since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/baltimore\/news\/frederick-man-recovering-after-receiving-pig-heart-transplant-at-university-of-maryland-school-of-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\">a Maryland man<\/a> became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig \u2014 and hospital video released Friday shows he\u2019s working hard to recover.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine offered the highly experimental surgery.<\/p>\n<p>In the first glimpse of Faucette provided since the Sept. 20 transplant, hospital video shows physical therapist Chris Wells urging him to push through a pedaling exercise to regain his strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig \u2014 and hospital video released Friday shows he\u2019s working hard to recover. Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when doctors at the University of Maryland School of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}