Can you squeal like a pig?..................
Posted on 04/04/2024 10:33:52 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
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 first patient to receive a kidney transplanted from a genetically modified pig has fared so well that he was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday, just two weeks after the groundbreaking surgery.
The transplant and its encouraging outcome represent a remarkable moment in medicine, scientists say, possibly heralding an era of cross-species organ transplantation.
Two previous organ transplants from genetically modified pigs failed. Both patients received hearts, and both died a few weeks later. In one patient, there were signs that the immune system had rejected the organ, a constant risk.
But the kidney transplanted into Richard Slayman, 62, is producing urine, removing waste products from the blood, balancing the body’s fluids and carrying out other key functions, according to his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital.
“This moment — leaving the hospital today with one of the cleanest bills of health I’ve had in a long time — is one I wished would come for many years,” he said in a statement issued by the hospital. “Now it’s a reality.”
He said he had received “exceptional care” and thanked his physicians and nurses, as well as the well-wishers who reached out to him, including kidney patients who were waiting for an organ.
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I mention that because up until I was recruited through community outreach, I had little idea of just how deadly kidney disease is. I thought dialysis was relatively easy (it's not) and that it was a permanent fix (it's not.)
Given that upwards of 85,000 Americans die annually while awaiting human transplants, this development is the most exciting thing since the first human transplantation seventy years ago. Meanwhile, consider indicating the organ donation designation on your drivers lincense.
I guess you can say that he will bring home the bacon.
On the one hand, the procedure might add years to his life.
On the other hand, he will be pestered by friends calling “soieeeeee” for all those years.
Going “wee-wee-weee” all the way home.
And you thought his place was a pig pen before...
Soon the left will say the procedure is racist against Muslims (always forgetting that Islam isn’t a race anyway)
SOOOOWEEEEET!.........................
Can you squeal like a pig?..................
I just want to know, is it still OK for this recipient to eat pork barbecue?
;-P
And God bless you for your donation.
Can you squeal like a pig?..................
Bedee, bedee that’s all folks.
Seriously, I’m glad it worked out.
Incorrect, the first inter-species kidney transplant was when my ex-husband received a kidney from his wife, a viper.
But stops to root for truffles
Eating bacon might now be considered cannibalism. Poor guy!
He now has a strange urge to ferret for truffles, it was reported.
“He now has a strange urge to ferret for truffles, it was reported.”
And has a strange attraction to mud.
It’s so thoughtful for Rosie O’Donnell to give up a kidney to someone in need. Or was this one from Rob Reiner?
no, I won’t designate my organs....if I die in a car accident, my better half or children can do what they please....
Betcha he’s a real ham!
sounds very ungrateful..
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