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Patient lived with world's first pig kidney transplant for nine months before getting human organ (news.sky.com)
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The transplant lasted 271 days, the longest dialysis-free survival after a pig kidney transplant in a living human, as well as the first transition from pig-to-human kidney transplantation.

A man with end-stage kidney failure was kept off dialysis for nine months after being given a genetically modified organ from a pig.

The world-first procedure was carried out by the US-based Mass General Brigham academic centres and hospitals, which said the transplant was intended to be temporary before a permanent human donor could be found.

It marks the longest dialysis-free survival after a pig kidney transplant in a living human, as well as the first transition from pig-to-human kidney transplantation.

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[–] 2 points 2 months ago

I'm on dialysis. It sucks. It's better than dying, mind.

Transplants aren't perfect, but they are better. But everything has risks, of course.

Article is good news, though. If they can make them work better, that might be a better solution. Kidneys from healthy (human) donors last longer than kidneys from less healthy donors. So if they can make pig kidneys last as long as human kidneys, that could be really great news.

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