Becker's Healthcare February 7, 2025
In January, the fourth person in the U.S. received a pig kidney transplant.
The kidney was placed in a 66-year-old man by surgeons at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital, The New York Times reported. He is the hospital’s second patient to receive a genetically edited pig kidney. The hospital is also credited with implanting the world’s first patient with a pig organ in March, according to a Feb. 7 system news release shared with Becker’s.
So far, pig kidney transplant patients have not lived long after transplant. Two of the previous patients died shortly after the procedures, including one who was critically ill before...
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