Richard “Rick” Slayman: Man who received first pig kidney transplant dies, his death came just two weeks after his surgery. latest news on townflex

  • roguetrick
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    921 year ago

    Suffering from end-stage kidney disease, Richard underwent the groundbreaking procedure in March, only to depart from this world merely two months post-surgery.

    The news of his demise was confirmed by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the medical facility behind the historic transplant, on Saturday.

    Either an AI wrote this or somebody needs to take the author’s fucking thesaurus. He has ceased to be. He’s shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain, and joined the choir invisible. He is an Ex-pig kidney transplant recipient.

    • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      531 year ago

      Yeah, but he got a human heart in 2018 and was diabetic.

      He wasn’t going to live long regardless, but what matters is what killed him and the source is pretty bad.

      Two months isn’t great and it’s not terrible, so the details is what matters.

  • Amoxtli
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    -91 year ago

    Isn’t it cheaper to harvest organs from cadavers instead of spending millions in figuring how to put pig parts into humans? Then you ask why US healthcare is so expensive.

    • @Soulfulginger@lemmy.world
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      171 year ago

      Dr. Death was about gross negligence in medicine and the failure of the medical system to prevent unqualified doctors from making it through the system. There’s no evidence that this study has anything to do with that