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Successful Transplant of Pig Kidney into Brain-Dead Man: Groundbreaking Results from New York

Al-Marsad Newspaper: Doctors in New York succeeded in transplanting a pig’s kidney into the body of a brain-dead man, and it became functioning normally for more than a month.

Pig kidney

And the Langone Medical Center, affiliated with New York University, stated that it is the longest working period for a genetically modified pig kidney with a human body, although it was performed after he died, and the researchers are still following the performance of the transplanted kidney for the second month, according to “Ab”.

human organ

Dr. Robert Montgomery, Director of the Langone Institute for Organ Transplantation, responded to the question, “Will the transplanted organ really work like a human organ?”, Saying that it seems possible so far.

urine production

Montgomery explained, in conjunction with the operation to replace the man’s kidneys with one kidney from a genetically modified pig, that it looked better than a human kidney, indicating that he followed it as it started producing urine immediately.

2023-08-16 23:55:14

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