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Transplanted pig kidney removed after functioning in living patient for more than four months
A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...
A Bensalem teenager needed a kidney. A New York woman needed to remove hers. After the transplant, they met for the first time
Megan Bosack needed her kidney removed. Evelyn Bautista needed a new one. Their needs made for a perfect match. Bosack, 21, ...
Alabama woman has pig kidney removed after a record 130 days
An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...
Dwyane Wade Only Wanted This Person with Him Before Cancer Surgery — and It's Not Wife Gabrielle Union
Dwyane Wade is sharing more about the moments before he underwent surgery for cancer, and revealed that he only wanted his ...
She set the record for living longest with a pig kidney. Then it failed.
A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it ...
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Transplanted pig kidney removed after functioning in living patient for more than four months
She left the hospital 11 days after surgery at NYU Langone Transplant ... term but can do only 10% to 15% of what a healthy kidney does, and people on dialysis have a 50% chance of dying in ...