A US man has died months after becoming the world’s first living recipient of a genetically edited pig kidney transplant, hailed as a medical milestone. Rick Slayman, 62, received the kidney at Massachusetts General in March after he had been diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease last year. The hospital emphasised there is no indication his death was a result of the transplant.
The kidney began to show signs of failure five years later and he resumed dialysis in 2023. “I saw it not only as a way to help me but a way to provide hope for the thousands of people who need a transplant to survive,” Slayman said of the later transplant. Legorreta Centre for Clinical Transplant Tolerance director Dr Tatsuo Kawai performed the groundbreaking operation in March to a round of applause in the operating room. The need for organs far exceeds the number available in the US.
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