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Pig kidney worked 271 days in American patient
door Tobias Reen, AI-redacteur wetenschap
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Last Friday, a flood of international news media reported that a pig kidney functioned for a record 271 days in the body of an American patient. This patient received the kidney from a pig while waiting for a human transplant.
According to the BBC and The Guardian, the genetically modified pig kidney worked for nine months. The Financial Times and Forbes report that the kidney offered 'life-changing' independence from dialysis.
Arise.tv and The New York Times write that the pig kidney kept a patient alive until he could receive a human kidney. NBC News and the BBC state that this is a first for organ transplants.
The patient lived with the world's first pig kidney for nine months, before receiving a human organ, reports Sky News.
The pig kidney worked for 271 days in the human body, as reported by multiple news media, including NBC News, BBC, Financial Times, Harvard Medical School, and The Guardian.
Last year, in 2023, the BBC reported that a transplanted pig kidney had worked for 271 days in the body of an American man. That was a record.
The patient who received the pig kidney became the first to advance to a human kidney transplant, according to Harvard Medical School.
The pig kidneys were successfully transplanted into humans, an achievement reported by the Financial Times and Forbes.