US Navy veteran ‘cracking jokes’ two days after pig heart transplant

Lawrence Faucette sits with his wife, Ann, in hospital (Mark Teske/University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP)

US surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life in only the second operation of its kind.

Two days later, the man was cracking jokes and able to sit in a chair, Maryland doctors said on Friday.