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US Man Still Alive Six Months After Pig Kidney Transplant
Monday September 8, 2025. 07:27 PM , from Slashdot
![]() Reaching six months' survival is an amazing feat, says Wayne Hawthorne, a transplant surgeon at the University of Sydney in Australia. The first six months is the period of 'highest risk for the patient and also the transplant,' he adds. Possible complications include anaemia and graft rejection, when the immune system attacks the new organ. 'The six-month time point marks that things have gone extremely well,' Hawthorne says. Reaching 12 months would be another milestone and a 'fantastic long-term outcome,' he adds. Previously, the recipient with longest-surviving genetically modified pig organ was a 53-year-old US woman, Towana Looney, who had a functioning pig kidney for four months and nine days. However, the organ was removed earlier this year because her immune system began to reject it. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/1727212/us-man-still-alive-six-months-after-pig-kidney-t...
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