He is very grateful to the doctors. In the USA, Massachusetts General Hospital published a press release about the fate of the first living patient who received a kidney from a genetically modified pig to treat kidney failure. Discuss
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Richard Slayman, 62, was forced to live “for years” on dialysis, a machine procedure that removes excess water from the blood. toxins and other substances for kidney dysfunction. Slayman was already a transplant patient: he already had a donor kidney that eventually stopped functioning, leaving him in urgent need of a new organ. And as an experiment, he was transplanted with a kidney from a GM pig. Previously, only deceased people were recipients.
The operation to transplant a pig kidney to Slayman lasted 4 hours, the transplant was performed by surgeons Tatsuo Kawai and Nahel Elias. As a result, the new organ successfully and quickly took root and the patient was now discharged home.
He expressed extreme gratitude and complete confidence in the doctors, saying that he plans to return to normal everyday life “without the burden of dialysis, which has reduced the quality of life for a long time.” for many years.”