The first man to receive a genetically modified kidney transplant from a pig was discharged from hospital on Wednesday last week.Richard “Rick” Slayman, 62, who had been suffering from end-stage kidney disease, no longer needs dialysis after the groundbreaking procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School’s biggest teaching hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.Slayman had been diagnosed with end-stage renal disease, which means his kidneys could not function on their own. He was placed on dialysis from 2011 until 2018 when he received his first kidney transplant from a human donor at MGH.
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