Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.
In the absence of accessible, integrated, multidimensional patient data, the organ transplant system will remain both highly ...
On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...
A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...
The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.
Today, with shortage of organs the world over ... especially so in the regions of his abdomen and chest. After transplant surgery almost all patients receive steroids leading to a similar obesity.
The surgery, performed by lead surgeon Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, is a promising step forward for xenotransplantation, or the transplantation of organs from one species to another, doctors said.
The company said it expects the first xenotransplant, or the transplant of organs between species, to happen around the middle of the year. The FDA’s sign-off “represents a significant step ...