Richard Slayman, the first living person to receive a genetically edited kidney from a pig, has been discharged from hospital and is “recovering well,” doctors from the Massachusetts General Hospital said.
A pig kidney sits on ice, awaiting transplantation into a living human at Massachusetts General Hospital on March 16 in Boston. Just over two weeks after doctors placed a genetically edited kidney from a pig inside Richard Slayman, the 62-year-old is recovering at home and relishing “one of the happiest moments” of his life, according to a statement from the hospital that carried out the landmark four-hour surgery.
Slayman said in his statement he was “excited to resume spending time” with his loved ones, “free from the burden of dialysis that has affected my quality of life for many years.”The institute notes that White people were more likely to receive a transplant within five years, compared to Black, Hispanic, and Asian people.
In 2023, another patient died six weeks after receiving a pig heart transplant. Before the surgery, Lawrence Faucette was dying of heart failure and was deemed ineligible for a human heart transplant due to his advanced medical conditions. The pig transplant procedure was his last chance at life. While Faucette initially showed “significant” signs of progress, his new heart began to show “signs of rejection” in the weeks that followed, officials at the University of Maryland School of Medicine
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