Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into 4th Patient

New Hampshire man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney
A New Hampshire man has become the second person known to be living with a pig kidney. Massachusetts General Hospital announced Friday that Tim Andrews recovered well enough after the Jan. 25 transplant to leave the hospital a week later.
NH man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney after Mass. General Hospital transplant
A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment.
Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new clinical trial sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration. Two of the previous patients died shortly after the procedure, including one who was critically ill before the transplant.
Eledon announces tegoprubart use in transplant of pig kidney into human
Eledon Pharmaceuticals (ELDN) announced that tegoprubart, the company’s investigational anti-CD40L antibody, was used as a key component of the
Man is believed to be second person in the world currently living with a pig kidney
Mass General Brigham has announced the successful completion of another gene-edited pig kidney transplant, the first of a three-person pilot study. (Video production: Laura Bargfeld)
F.D.A. Approves Studies of Pig Organ Transplants for Kidney Patients
The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ transplant.
MGH completes its second pig-to-human kidney transplant
A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the hospital performed the world’s first such surgery.
Second pig kidney transplant successfully completed at Massachusetts General Hospital
For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig kidney into a living person.
New Hampshire man gets pig kidney transplant from Mass General Brigham
Massachusetts General Hospital announced Friday that Tim Andrews recovered well enough after the Jan. 25 transplant to leave the hospital a week later. Andrews calls himself “a new man,” free from two years of dialysis.
Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...
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FDA Approves Transplant Trials for Gene-Edited Pig Kidneys
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FDA OKs clinical trials for pig kidney transplants in people
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants in people ...
FDA approves pig organ transplant trials for patients with kidney failure
The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...
She's a medical miracle. Could her animal transplant success be just the beginning?
Towana Looney of Alabama is 'going strong and feeling great' after a pig kidney transplant. No one has lived longer with an ...