Massachusetts General Hospital surgeons have successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62-year-old man, marking the first time such a procedure has been done. The patient is recovering well and is expected to be discharged soon.
Massachusetts General Hospital surgeons successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old man in four-hour surgery, the hospital announced Thursday. It’s the first time a genetically modified pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person. Before the surgery, pig kidney s had only been temporarily transplanted into brain-dead organ donors.
Doctors held a news conference Thursday and said the patient, Richard "Rick" Slayman of Weymouth, Massachusetts, is recovering from the surgery, which happened on March 16, and should be discharged soon. RELATED: Wegovy weight-loss medication gets FDA approval for use as heart disease prevention drugThere were 15 people in the operating room for the four-hour procedure. Doctors said almost as soon as it was implanted, the kidney turned pink and started producing urine. "It was truly the most beautiful kidney I have ever seen," said D. Tatsuo Kawai, the transplant surgeon. Slayman had a kidney transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2018, but had to go back on dialysis last year. Doctors suggested a pig kidney transplant after dialysis complications continued to require frequent procedures to fix. Doctors said Slayman became "increasingly despondent and depressed over his dialysis situation." "At one point ... he literally said ‘I just can't go on like this,’" said his kidney specialist, Dr. Winfred William
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