Another Person Has Received a Pig Kidney Transplant
Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...
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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.
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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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 ...
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Epstein-Barr Virus Might Help Trigger Cancer After Kidney Transplant
Key TakeawaysKidney transplant recipients who’ve never been exposed to the Epstein-Barr virus but receive organs from a donor ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
The January 25 procedure took place through the US ... medical director for kidney transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital, said in a statement. The practice of transplanting animal ...
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Boston Surgeons Successfully Transplant Pig Kidney in Fourth Patient
Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States.