{"id":186744,"date":"2024-04-04T02:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T07:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/patient-with-transplanted-pig-kidney-leaves-hospital-for-home"},"modified":"2024-04-04T02:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T07:22:23","slug":"patient-with-transplanted-pig-kidney-leaves-hospital-for-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/patient-with-transplanted-pig-kidney-leaves-hospital-for-home","title":{"rendered":"Patient With Transplanted Pig Kidney Leaves Hospital for Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/patient-with-transplanted-pig-kidney-leaves-hospital-for-home2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first patient to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/21\/health\/pig-kidney-organ-transplant.html\" title=\"\">receive a kidney transplanted from a genetically modified pig<\/a> has fared so well that he was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday, just two weeks after the groundbreaking surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The transplant and its encouraging outcome represent a remarkable moment in medicine, scientists say, possibly heralding an era of cross-species organ transplantation.<\/p>\n<p>Two previous organ transplants from genetically modified pigs failed. Both patients received hearts, and both died a few weeks later. In one patient, there were signs that the immune system had rejected the organ, a constant risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first patient to receive a kidney transplanted from a genetically modified pig has fared so well that he was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday, just two weeks after the groundbreaking surgery. The transplant and its encouraging outcome represent a remarkable moment in medicine, scientists say, possibly heralding an era of cross-species organ transplantation. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}