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Transplantation with standard-criteria kidney offers a clear survival benefit, but this decreases with age and for those with a history of CVD.

Instead, she learned she had kidney failure, a life-altering disease requiring long-term dialysis or a kidney transplant to survive. In that short visit, Amber’s life changed.

Last month, a 54-year-old New Jersey woman became the second person ever to have a genetically modified pig kidney transplant. More than 100,000 people in the U.S. are on the waitlist for organs.

Doctors transplant pig kidney into man in Boston 02:55. BOSTON – For the first time ever, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston transplanted a pig kidney into a living human patient.