US Surgeons Transplant Pig Kidney To Patient In World First

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A team of surgeons have successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a living patient for the first time, Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday.

The four-hour-long operation was carried out on Saturday on a 62-year-old man suffering from end-stage kidney disease, the hospital said.

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