Health & Fitness
Medical Breakthrough: Doctors At NYU Langone Health Successfully Transplant Pig Kidney To Human Recipient
"The sad truth is that half of the people who are waiting for a transplant are going to get too sick or die before an organ is available."
October 23, 2021
In an amazing medical breakthrough, doctors at NYU have succeeded in using a pig’s kidney for a human recipient.
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Experts said this could mean the thousands of people on kidney transplant waiting lists could have a new option someday, CBS2’s Dr. Max Gomez reported.
“The sad truth is that nearly half of the people who are waiting for a transplant are going to get too sick or die before an organ is available,” said Dr. Robert Montgomery of NYU Langone Health.
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