The first patient who received a pig kidney transplant was discharged

Massachusetts General Hospital announced that Rick Slayman, the world’s first recipient of a genetically modified pig, was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday, two weeks after surgery. “He is recovering and will continue his recovery at home with his family,” Hospital X previously said on Twitter. said.

In the statement made by the hospital, Slayman said: “Leaving the hospital today with the cleanest bill of health I have received in a long time is the moment I have been wishing for for years. Now it has come true. And this is one of the happiest moments of my life.”

Slayman, the 62-year-old director of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, previously said that when he was diagnosed with end-stage renal disease, his doctors recommended he try pig kidneys.

Doctors said last month they believed Slayman’s new kidney could last for years, but acknowledged there were many unknowns about animal-to-human transplants.