The patient, Towana Looney, was in better health than previous recipients, and her case could signal progress toward solving the organ-supply shortage.
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.
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.
Tens of millions of farm animals cross state lines every year, traveling in cramped, stressful conditions that can facilitate the spread of disease.
Richard Slayman received the historic procedure in March. The hospital said it had “no indication” his death was related to the transplant.
H5N1, an avian flu virus, has killed tens of thousands of marine mammals, and infiltrated American livestock for the first time. Scientists are working quickly to assess how it is evolving and how much of a risk it poses to humans.
Officials have shared little information, saying the outbreak was limited. But asymptomatic cows in North Carolina have changed the assessment.
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.
The man continues to improve, doctors said. Organs from genetically engineered pigs one day may make dialysis obsolete.
Researchers said they found signs of organ rejection, which the genetically modified tissue was supposed to prevent.
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