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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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[–] 1 point 2 months ago

It's only an order 1) with their consent 2) someone who you want to 3) someone who wants you to :)

Oh, I have an entire writeup of my medical journey. lol.

That's a lot for you to handle - not only the kidling, but even as a non-parent I can imagine the worry you have, and trying to protect him as best as you can. And it's not always easy to decide what's worth what risk or not.

Oh, and to continue aswering bits completely our of order, yeah, implantable defib. I dunno, it made me nervous, especially since as far as I can tell, my risk of cardiac arrest seems low. And my heart attacks are getting less bad - I had four STEMIs, then two NSTEMIs, and the last one was IIRC an NSTEMI Type 2 which is one they wouldn't've even detected a few years or so ago. heh

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