The first man ever to receive a genetically modified kidney transplant from a pig has been discharged from the hospital.
Hailing from Weymouth, US, the 62-year-old man named Richard who went through a ground-breaking surgery two weeks ago, was sent home from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
As per BBC, organ transplants from genetically modified pigs have failed in the past. However, this time, the procedure which is being hailed by scientists as a historic milestone in the field of transplantation, was successful.
The news was shared in a press release on by MGH admin, which is Harvard Medical School’s largest teaching hospital in the US city of Boston through a release statement stated that the patient, named Richard “Rick” Slayman of Weymouth, Massachusetts, had been battling end-stage kidney disease and required an organ transplant.
According the doctors, who transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into the patient’s body, said Slayman’s organ is now functioning well and he is no longer on dialysis.
This is not the first kidney transplant the patient has received. In 2018, he had a human kidney transplant from a deceased donor, however, it began to fail last year, and doctors raised the idea of a pig kidney transplant.
The first man ever to receive a genetically modified kidney transplant from a pig has been discharged from the hospital.
Hailing from Weymouth, US, the 62-year-old man named Richard who went through a ground-breaking surgery two weeks ago, was sent home from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
Organ transplants from genetically modified pigs have failed in the past. However, this time, the procedure which is being hailed by scientists as a historic milestone in the field of transplantation, was successful.
The news was shared in a press release by MGH admin, which is Harvard Medical School’s largest teaching hospital in the US city of Boston a release statement stated that the patient, named Richard “Rick” Slayman of Weymouth, Massachusetts, had been battling end-stage kidney disease and required an organ transplant.
According to the doctors, who transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into the patient’s body, Mr. Slayman’s organ is now functioning well and he is no longer on dialysis.
This is not the first kidney transplant the patient has received. In 2018, he had a human kidney transplant from a deceased donor, however, it began to fail last year, and doctors raised the idea of a pig kidney transplant.
