Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new clinical trial sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration. Two of the previous patients died shortly after the procedure, including one who was critically ill before the transplant.
The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. The world's first ...
The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...
It’s a glimmer of hope."Richard Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, was the recipient of the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically-edited pig kidney. He died less than two months after ...
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