Tag: Transplant
USA: Pig Heart Transplant Successfully Performed on Patient – Health
A transplant team in the USA claims to have connected a genetically modified pig heart to a human patient for the first time. The organ was used in a 57-year-old…
Medicine: First pig heart transplant for a human
medicine First pig heart transplant for a human The organ was used in a 57-year-old man with a life-threatening heart disease. Photo: Tom Jemski / University of Maryland School of…
First transplant of a heart from a genetically modified pig into a human
This is a major step for xenografts. US surgeons successfully transplanted a heart from a genetically modified pig into a patient, a world first, announced on Monday University of Maryland…
Transplant: Pig kidney successfully attached to a human
transplantation Pig kidney successfully attached to a human In this September 2021 photo courtesy of NYU Langone Health, a team of surgeons examines a pig kidney at a hospital. Photo:…