The patient, Towana Looney, was in better health than previous recipients, and her case could signal progress toward solving the organ-supply shortage.
In one recent study, the challenging regimen added 77 days of life after three years. Often, kidney disease can be managed in other ways.
Lisa Pisano, 54, lived with the organ for 47 days. She was the first patient to receive both a heart pump and an organ transplant, doctors said.
Climate change and contaminated water have combined to create an epidemic of kidney disease.
The organ, from a genetically modified animal, failed because of a lack of blood flow, surgeons said, but did not appear to have been rejected by the body.
Richard Slayman received the historic procedure in March. The hospital said it had “no indication” his death was related to the transplant.
NYU Langone Health surgeons performed the transplant after implanting a mechanical heart pump in the severely ill patient.
NYU Langone Health surgeons performed the transplant after implanting a mechanical heart pump in the severely ill patient.
A Houston hospital is investigating whether a doctor altered a transplant list to make his patients ineligible for care. A disproportionate number of them have died while waiting for new organs.
Richard Slayman, 62, is the first patient to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig. Two weeks after the procedure, he was well enough to be discharged, doctors said.
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