Pig kidney works record 2 months in donated brain-dead man's body
NYU Langone Health doctors have completed the longest-documented case of a genetically engineered pig kidney functioning in a human body following 61 days of observation.
The procedure, known as a xenotransplant, which involves the transplant of an animal organ into a human, was performed on July 14, 2023, and led by Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil, the H. Leon Pachter, MD, Professor and chair of the Department of Surgery and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute. The organ was removed on September 13, 2023, from a 58-year-old man who had been on a ventilator, with his family’s consent, after being declared dead by neurologic criteria before the xenotransplant.
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Two-Month Study Of A Transplanted Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney Into A Human Gives New Hope
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