First pig kidney transplant on a living patient - Medicine.com. Boston surgeons have transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig into a 62-year-old man suffering from end-stage kidney disease.
This is the first procedure of this kind: other attempts had in fact been carried out in the past but on brain-dead patients. If successful, the transplant, if successful, will offer concrete hope to many sick people. Currently, in Italy alone, there are around 8 thousand people waiting for a transplant in Italy.