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62-Year-Old Who Received First-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant Dies Nearly 2 Months Later
While the cause of his sudden death remains unknown, the hospital has confirmed it was not related to the transplant.
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World's First Pig Kidney Transplant Patient Discharged From US Hospital
The doctors said that Mr Slayman's kidney is now functioning well and he no longer requires dialysis.
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US Surgeons Transplant Pig Kidney To Patient In World First
A team of surgeons have successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a living patient for the first time, Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday.
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US Man Dies 40 Days After Receiving World's Second Pig Heart Transplant
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.
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''Extraordinary Milestone'': Monkey Survives For 2 Years After Pig Kidney Transplant
Scientists are now hopeful that this could solve the human organ shortage by using animals as donors.
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58-Year-Old American Man Gets World's 2nd Pig-To-Human Heart Transplant
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.
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US Surgeons Transplant Pig Kidney In Brain-Dead Human In 61-Day Experiment
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.
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In A First, Man Receives Kidney From Gene-Edited Pig
Doctors said it could lead to more animal-human transplants in the future.
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Pig Hearts Transplanted Into Two Dead Persons in Quest to Save Humans With Animal Organs
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.
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First Person With Transplanted Genetically Modified Pig Heart Dies After Two Months
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.
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First Pig Heart Transplant Patient Dies After Two Months
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.
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US Researchers Test Pig-to-Human Transplant in Donated Body
Researchers reported the latest in a surprising string of experiments in the quest to save human lives with organs from genetically modified pigs.
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US Medical Team Completes Another Pig-To-Human Kidney Transplant
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.
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"Dad Changing Future", Says Son After Man's Pig-Heart Transplant
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."
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In a First, US Surgeons Successfully Implant Pig Heart in Human
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.
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62-Year-Old Who Received First-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant Dies Nearly 2 Months Later
While the cause of his sudden death remains unknown, the hospital has confirmed it was not related to the transplant.
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World's First Pig Kidney Transplant Patient Discharged From US Hospital
The doctors said that Mr Slayman's kidney is now functioning well and he no longer requires dialysis.
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US Surgeons Transplant Pig Kidney To Patient In World First
A team of surgeons have successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a living patient for the first time, Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday.
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US Man Dies 40 Days After Receiving World's Second Pig Heart Transplant
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.
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''Extraordinary Milestone'': Monkey Survives For 2 Years After Pig Kidney Transplant
Scientists are now hopeful that this could solve the human organ shortage by using animals as donors.
-
58-Year-Old American Man Gets World's 2nd Pig-To-Human Heart Transplant
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 Transplant Pig Kidney In Brain-Dead Human In 61-Day Experiment
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.
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In A First, Man Receives Kidney From Gene-Edited Pig
Doctors said it could lead to more animal-human transplants in the future.
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Pig Hearts Transplanted Into Two Dead Persons in Quest to Save Humans With Animal Organs
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.
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First Person With Transplanted Genetically Modified Pig Heart Dies After Two Months
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.
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First Pig Heart Transplant Patient Dies After Two Months
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.
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US Researchers Test Pig-to-Human Transplant in Donated Body
Researchers reported the latest in a surprising string of experiments in the quest to save human lives with organs from genetically modified pigs.
-
US Medical Team Completes Another Pig-To-Human Kidney Transplant
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.
-
"Dad Changing Future", Says Son After Man's Pig-Heart Transplant
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."
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In a First, US Surgeons Successfully Implant Pig Heart in Human
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.
