Overview
- Surgeons took out the organ on Oct. 23 after a period of decreasing kidney function, the hospital said.
- Andrews, 67, has resumed dialysis and remains on the waiting list for a human donor kidney.
- The transplant set a world-record 271-day run for a functioning pig kidney in a human.
- The FDA-cleared pathway allows the first porcine-kidney clinical trial to expand to multiple U.S. centers with more than 30 patients.
- Early recipients have shown mixed outcomes, including two deaths after earlier procedures and a June Mass General patient who continues to fare well, as the hospital plans another pig-kidney transplant later this year.