“It’s like being in a maze and you can’t find a way out,” Montgomery explained - until the surgeons decided to pair a heart pump with a pig kidney.
Doctors combine pig kidney transplant with heart device in a bid to extend woman's life
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“It looks even better than a human kidney,” Montgomery said on July 14 as he replaced a deceased man's own kidneys with a single kidney from a genetically modified pig — and watched it immediately start producing urine.
Pig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, a step toward animal-human transplants
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