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Doctors say Lisa Pisano, who received a pig kidney transplant, is back on dialysis after surgeons removed the gradually failing organ. Pisano was the second person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig after Richard "Rick" Slayman at Massachusetts General Hospital. Slayman died in early May, about two months after his transplant.
Doctors said there was no indication he died as a result of the transplant. NYU will further study the explanted kidney for further insight on how it reacted inside a living person. A woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis just 47 days later after surgeons removed the gradually failing organ.
Lisa Pisano was the second person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig, and NYU Langone Health announced that she is stable after an operation to remove the organ earlier this week. The first patient to receive a pig kidney transplant, Richard "Rick" Slayman at Massachusetts General Hospital, died in early May, nearly two months after his transplant. Doctors there said there was no indication he died as a result of the experimental transplant.
MASSACHUSETTS MAN DIES 2 MONTHS AFTER BECOMING FIRST PERSON TO RECEIVE SUCCESSFUL PIG KIDNEY TRANSPLANT Pisano’s heart .
