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Transplanted pig kidney works in US man’s body for record 271 days
A kidney transplanted from a pig has worked inside a patient for 271 days - the longest on record, say US doctors.
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He became the person who lived the longest with an animal organ, freed from two years of prior dialysis treatments, and subsequently successfully received a human kidney transplant. According to a report published in 'The Lancet' medical journal, doctors were able to transplant a human donor kidney into Andrews after removing the pig kidney.
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- Leonardo Riella2
- Beatriz Dominguez-Gil
- Edith Parker
- Tim Andrews
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- United States3
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Mass General Brigham
- European Union
- United Kingdom
- Boston
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