Pig Kidney Serves as 271-Day Bridge to Human Transplant
An American patient, Tim Andrews, lived 271 days with a transplanted pig kidney that maintained renal function without dialysis before receiving a human kidney transplant earlier this year, marking the longest dialysis-free survival after porcine kidney xenotransplantation and highlighting xenotransplantation as a potential way to address organ shortages by serving as a bridge or destination therapy.