Patient who received pig kidney transplant “successfully recovers” US research team. This was announced on the 21st by a research team at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA.
Pig kidney transplants have previously been performed on brain-dead patients, but this is the world's first transplant aimed at helping patients recover. In the United States, research is underway to see if genetically engineered pig organs can be transplanted into humans, and a year ago, a patient who was not expected to recover with other treatments received a pig heart transplant.