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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...oiks goodbye
I heard that he was re-admitted with a badly scraped, muddied, nose and the smell of corn on his breath.
Like breakfast
The hen was involved
but the pig was committed.
Good to see that the pigman experiments of the ‘90s paid off.
The only side effect is that every afternoon he wants to go and make love in the mud.
I have a couple of friends who have pig valves in their hearts.
came here for the lols and wasn't disappointed.
That’s a different type of organ insertion.
Primatt:
“Ah a pig - an omnivorous cloven hoofed domesticated mammal that defecates in the same place it consumes.”
They named him, Ali-Hocks-bar
Thanks for sharing this information.
He’s living high on the hog.(I’m sorry)😁
He has the urge to roll around inthe mud, other than that he’s ok. His new name; “Arnold”.
Fred Ziffel and his wife were asking about him.
At least nobody will put lipstick on him.
…And THIS little piggy went wee wee wee all the way home!
“Meanwhile, consider indicating the organ donation designation on your drivers lincense.”
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You never know what the intentions or motivations are of complete total strangers. Neither I nor my children have such go-ahead do it instructions for unknown others to quickly carry out on their (perhaps possibly maybe could be recoverable) bodies.
My respects and admiration. I like to to think I’d do this for family or dear friends. Spent a lot of years looking at the immunological aspects of transplants and stem cells for regenerative medicine before it was ‘a thing’.
To paraphrase Kipling - ‘you are a better man than I.’
Thank you for your kind thoughts. I’d never had the opportunity of doing something that I felt so good about before. And again, my personal experience, since the procedure was laparoscopic, was truly not too burdensome: I took exactly one painkiller, oxycontin I think, in my entire recovery and was fully mobile in a month. The only “downside” was I drink three liters of water every day and limit my intake of alcohol and of animal protein, which is no big deal with some of the vegan stuff available nowadays. (That doesn’t mean I don’t treat myself to a scotch and steak every so often!)
My mother started me off with plasma donation even before I technically was allowed to do it (for the Managua earthquake victims,) so I think that she deserves credit for opening my mind decades ago to the possibility of doing it.
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