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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lauran Neergaard

Woman is back on dialysis after doctors remove transplanted pig kidney

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A woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis just 47 days later after surgeons removed the gradually failing organ.

Lisa Pisano was the second person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig, and NYU Langone Health announced that she is stable after an operation to remove the organ earlier this week.

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