Mass General doctor reveals cause of death of historic pig kidney transplant patient
The death of Rick Slayman, the first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, was caused by an “unexpected cardiac event,” and there was no sign his body was rejecting the organ, his transplant surgeon said Wednesday.
BOSTON - The Massachusetts man who received the first pig kidney transplant in the world has died. Rick Slayman, 62, from Weymouth, received the kidney from Massachusetts General Hospital on ...
Slayman had been the first person alive to receive such an organ after several trials on brain-dead bodies Rick Slayman, a 62-year-old man who had received a genetically modified pig kidney on ...
62-year-old Rick Slayman had previously received a failed ... made possible by genetic modification of the pig kidney. In a statement, the surgical team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH ...
US surgeons say Rick Slayman is a "real hero" for trying the pioneering operation. The ultimate hope is to use animal organs for more transplants. Pig kidneys have been put into brain-dead ...
As sixty-two-year-old Rick Slayman recovered in March from the first-ever transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a human, the revolutionary procedure was making headlines around ...
Also, two men received heart transplants from pigs, although both died within months. The patient, Richard “Rick” Slayman of Weymouth, Massachusetts, is recovering well from the surgery last ...
Mass General's pig kidney transplant last month raised new hopes. Kawai said Richard "Rick" Slayman experienced an early rejection scare but bounced back enough to go home earlier this month and ...
The first man to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died two months after the operation, the hospital which carried out the procedure has said. Richard "Rick" Slayman ...
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