Miracle of doctors in America, pig kidney transplanted into a human being

American doctors have succeeded in carrying out the first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a living human being. He gave this information on Thursday. Major breakthroughs in the medical field have opened new doors of possibilities for people suffering from kidney disease. Doctors achieved this feat in a 4-hour surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital on Thursday. In 1954, the world's first kidney transplant was performed in this hospital. Doctors said that the condition of 62 year old Rick Slayman is improving and he may soon be discharged from the hospital.

Doctors said the new kidney could last for years, but they acknowledged there was still a lot of work to do in animal-to-human transplants. For now, this success raises hopes for more animal organ transplants in the future. Pig kidneys have been experimentally transplanted into brain-dead people, but this is the first such case into a living human.

In 2018, a patient underwent a human kidney transplant

In a written statement provided by the hospital, Slayman said he had been a patient in the hospital's transplant program for 11 years, CNN reported. He underwent a human kidney transplant in 2018 after suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure for several years. Five years later, symptoms of kidney failure began to appear and in 2023 he was restarted on dialysis. He further said that last year, when his kidney problem reached the last stage, the doctors advised him to get a pig kidney transplanted.

hope for thousands of people

“I saw this as a way to not only help myself, but also as a way to bring hope to the thousands of people battling chronic kidney disease,” Slayman said in the statement. Many patients are waiting for donors, but there is a severe shortage of human donor organs. In America, 17 people die every day while waiting for an organ. There is a huge shortage of kidney donors. Successful transplantation of animal organs could help solve this problem. Recently, heart transplantation from pig to human has also been attempted.