The four-hour operation, performed on March 16, "marks a major milestone in the quest to provide more accessible organs to patients," the hospital said in a statement.
Massachusetts General Hospital said it was the first time a genetically engineered pig kidney had been transplanted into a living person. Previously, pig kidneys were temporarily transplanted into patients without brain functions. Also, two men received heart transplants from pigs, but both died within a few months, writes "Radio Free Europe" (CSR).
The experimental transplant was performed Saturday at a Boston hospital.
The four-hour operation, performed on March 16, "marks a major milestone in the quest to provide more accessible organs to patients," the hospital said in a statement.
The patient, Richard Sleiman of Weymouth, Massachusetts, is recovering well and is expected to be discharged soon, doctors said Thursday.
Sleiman had a kidney transplant at the hospital in 2018, but had to return to dialysis last year when he showed signs of failure. When complications arose with dialysis, his doctors suggested a pig kidney transplant, he said in a statement released by the hospital.
"I saw it not only as a way to help me, but as a way to give hope to the thousands of people who need a transplant to survive," Sleiman said.
The gnats are wreaking havoc in parts of Rome. Bird droppings rain down on the Romans every day. They can't disperse them even with trumpets, so they move around the city with umbrellas
The number of people deported to the US in the fiscal year ended September 30 was about nine percent higher than the previous record of 442.640 deportations.
An outage of Microsoft servers due to increased load has left users around the world without access to Microsoft 365 applications. Problems have also been reported by large companies and government institutions
Milorad Dodik says that his son Igor is among the candidates for prime minister of Republika Srpska because he is one of the most promising members of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats.
Croatia asks Montenegro to fulfill six demands. If it does not do so, it threatens to block its negotiations for membership in the European Union.
At the moment when the institutions of the Republic are destroyed, when Vuฤiฤ's octopus is still alive, when people are disgusted by the injustice and the stench left behind by the Essenes regime, we have, as Machiavelli said, only civic virtue as the fuel with which we can return to the beginning
The four independent members of REM are an example of perseverance and civic responsibility. Rodoljub ล abiฤ even, upon leaving the premises of REM, after the sentencing of the Informer, experienced that the Essenes insulted him, hit him with their hands and feet. But that too will soon be over
Vuฤiฤ pardoned the batterers and Dijana Hrkaloviฤ. The election winners should abolish the sultan's power that allows one man to run afoul of the entire judicial system
Interview: Branko Stamenkoviฤ, public prosecutor of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office
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