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US patient, 62, who had first ever pig kidney transplant dies two months after operation

An American man who was the first in the world to undergo a pig kidney transplant has died less than two months after the procedure, despite having been told it would last him two years.

Richard Slayman, from Weymouth, Massachusetts, was given the genetically modified pig kidney to save him from death in a four hour procedure back in March.

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