A 54-year-old grandmother, Lisa Pisano, has become the first recipient of a groundbreaking medical procedure involving a combined pig kidney and mechanical heart transplant.
Suffering from end-stage kidney disease and heart failure, Pisano's health conditions presented significant challenges...
Richard Slayman, aged 62, made medical history as the first recipient of a transplanted pig kidney, discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital after nearly three weeks post-operation.
Slayman, suffering from type 2 diabetes and hypertension, received the genetically edited pig kidney in a...
In a groundbreaking medical feat, doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have achieved a major milestone in organ transplantation. Richard Slayman, a 62-year-old man from Weymouth, Massachusetts, suffering from end-stage renal disease, has become the first human recipient of a...
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