First human to receive transplanted pig kidney dies
A man with end-stage renal disease who earlier this year became the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig has died, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said.
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also even if it was, could the man survived that long without the kidney?
Likely no. The patient had several other severe health issues, any one of which (or, more likely, a combination of which) caused his death. His new mutant kidney was probably the healthiest thing inside him.
Kidney issues cause cardiac issues and vice versa
That's the problem with using experimental procedures on terminally ill patients. The data is crap because you sont know if the procedure killed them or if they just were never gonna make it. .
True, but there's not many healthy people lining up to get pig organs implanted so this is realistically the best human data we can get until it's proven to work.
Well, you know it didn't save them
Although, considering all of the other health problems that this patient had, we don’t know that, if this were his only problem, it wouldn’t have.
In other words: it might have, if not for everything else wrong with this guy.
I guess we found out if it was very immediately killing them, and post-mortem, could probably see (a little bit), how much the kidney was to blame