Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States.
More than 600 lung transplants have been performed since Northwestern Medicine launched its lung transplant program back in ...
It took a COVID layoff, a TV show, a nonprofit leader and a priest’s encouragement for Sheila Devaney’s kidney to be ...
Three days into my medical career, my first patient died. She was a 27-year-old who succumbed to an autoimmune liver disease. She had been denied a liver transplant for years because she was uninsured ...
For the second time, Massachusetts General Hospital has transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human.
“As soon as I woke up after the surgery, the cloud of dialysis disappeared. I felt re-energized and revitalized. It was a ...
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...
Mass General Brigham has announced the successful completion of another gene-edited pig kidney transplant, the first of a three-person pilot study. (Video production: Laura Bargfeld) ...
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Breakthrough: US FDA clears first gene-edited pig kidney transplants in humansIn a significant development for organ transplantation, two U.S. biotechnology companies, United Therapeutics and ...
Rebecca P. Winsett, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. Judy C. Martin, PhD, APRN, Associate Professor, College of ...
The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...
14 However, long-term morbidity after transplantation remains a concern. At 5 years, approximately 90% have hypertension or hyperlipidaemia, and 30% have renal dysfunction (with 7% having a serum ...
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