66-year-old man receives pig kidney transplant

A Second Person Has Received a Pig Kidney Transplant
The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.
The science behind the first pig-organ transplant trial in humans
The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.
Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new clinical trial sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration. Two of the previous patients died shortly after the procedure, including one who was critically ill before the transplant.
Surgeons Perform Second Pig Kidney Transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time successfully transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a living person. The team performed the first surgery of its kind in the world in March 2024.
MGH completes its second pig-to-human kidney transplant
A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the hospital performed the world’s first such surgery. A Mass General ...
US greenlights pig kidney transplant trials
Two US biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their gene-edited pig kidneys for human transplants.
Second pig kidney transplant successfully completed at Massachusetts General Hospital
For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig kidney into a living person.
Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received a pig kidney transplant.
Pig kidney transplant breakthrough offers hope for organ shortage
Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a pig kidney into a 66-year-old patient with end-stage kidney disease. The surgical team reported that the new kidney is functioning as expected.
New Hampshire man successfully receives Pig kidney in groundbreaking transplant
A 66-year-old man, Tim Andrews, has successfully undergone a pig kidney transplant, becoming the second person to do so.
NH man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney after MGH transplant
The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
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First Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Functioned Until Recipient's Death
The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. The world's first ...
MGH performs its second, world’s fourth genetically altered pig kidney transplant
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
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New Hampshire man gets pig kidney transplant from Mass General Brigham
One big question was cardiac fitness: Mass General’s first pig kidney recipient had underlying heart disease that ... to survive long enough for a human transplant. “Those are the patients ...
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NH man becomes 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney
One big question was cardiac fitness: Mass General’s first pig kidney recipient had underlying heart disease that ... to survive long enough for a human transplant. “Those are the patients ...