Pig Transplant

While the cause of his sudden death remains unknown, the hospital has confirmed it was not related to the transplant.

The doctors said that Mr Slayman's kidney is now functioning well and he no longer requires dialysis.

A team of surgeons have successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a living patient for the first time, Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday.

According to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the heart had seemed healthy for the first month but began showing signs of rejection in recent days.

Scientists are now hopeful that this could solve the human organ shortage by using animals as donors.

A 58-year-old man this week became the world's second patient to receive a transplant of a genetically modified pig heart, the latest milestone in a growing field of medical research.

US surgeons who transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain-dead patient announced Thursday they had ended their experiment after a record-breaking 61 days.

Doctors said it could lead to more animal-human transplants in the future.

Researchers in New York have transplanted pig hearts into two brain dead people to study the effects of animal organ transplants in humans. The attempts to use pig hearts in humans follows the failed attempt to transplant one in a dying Maryland man, before scientists make another attempt on a living person.

A 57-year-old man with terminal heart disease who made history as the first person to receive a genetically modified pig's heart died on Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), the hospital said.

The first person to receive a pig heart transplant has died two months after the historic procedure, the hospital that carried out the surgery said Wednesday.

Researchers reported the latest in a surprising string of experiments in the quest to save human lives with organs from genetically modified pigs.

A US medical team on Thursday announced it had carried out the second-known kidney transplant from a pig to a human, the first inside the body of a brain dead recipient.

The son of a transplant recipient who was implanted with a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind surgery, called his father's procedure "a miracle."

US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a 57-year-old man, a medical first that could one day help solve the chronic shortage of organ donations.

While the cause of his sudden death remains unknown, the hospital has confirmed it was not related to the transplant.

The doctors said that Mr Slayman's kidney is now functioning well and he no longer requires dialysis.

A team of surgeons have successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a living patient for the first time, Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday.

According to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the heart had seemed healthy for the first month but began showing signs of rejection in recent days.

Scientists are now hopeful that this could solve the human organ shortage by using animals as donors.

A 58-year-old man this week became the world's second patient to receive a transplant of a genetically modified pig heart, the latest milestone in a growing field of medical research.

US surgeons who transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain-dead patient announced Thursday they had ended their experiment after a record-breaking 61 days.

Doctors said it could lead to more animal-human transplants in the future.

Researchers in New York have transplanted pig hearts into two brain dead people to study the effects of animal organ transplants in humans. The attempts to use pig hearts in humans follows the failed attempt to transplant one in a dying Maryland man, before scientists make another attempt on a living person.

A 57-year-old man with terminal heart disease who made history as the first person to receive a genetically modified pig's heart died on Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), the hospital said.

The first person to receive a pig heart transplant has died two months after the historic procedure, the hospital that carried out the surgery said Wednesday.

Researchers reported the latest in a surprising string of experiments in the quest to save human lives with organs from genetically modified pigs.

A US medical team on Thursday announced it had carried out the second-known kidney transplant from a pig to a human, the first inside the body of a brain dead recipient.

The son of a transplant recipient who was implanted with a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind surgery, called his father's procedure "a miracle."

US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a 57-year-old man, a medical first that could one day help solve the chronic shortage of organ donations.