{"id":11853,"date":"2026-09-08T17:08:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/satdi.umh.es\/?p=11853"},"modified":"2026-09-08T17:51:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:51:05","slug":"sobrevive-nueve-meses-con-un-rinon-de-cerdo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satdi.umh.es\/en\/2026\/09\/08\/sobrevive-nueve-meses-con-un-rinon-de-cerdo\/","title":{"rendered":"Survives nine months with a porcine kidney"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom Andrews preparing for surgery. KateFlock\/Massachusetts General Hospital.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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Tim Andrews, 66, received a transplant of a genetically modified porcine kidney in January 2025. The procedure was performed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and Andrews lived with the kidney for 271 days<\/strong>. During that period, he was able to stop dialysis, which had kept him alive until then.<\/p>\n

In a study published earlier this month in the medical journal\u00a0The Lancet<\/em><\/a>, the team that performed the procedure explains that animal organ transplants \u2014 known as xenotransplants \u2014 could be used as a \u201cbridge\u201d while patients wait for a suitable human organ to become available.<\/p>\n

The kidney was developed with 69 genetic modifications to prevent Andrews\u2019 body from identifying the new organ as a foreign body. This medical and scientific challenge set a record for the longest-lasting animal-to-human transplant, with the organ surviving for nine months.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the organ failed<\/strong> and surgeons had to remove it. Andrews returned to dialysis, but a suitable human donor became available shortly afterwards. As he explained, the porcine kidney transplant gave him \u201chope\u201d because he had very little time left and, most importantly, it allowed him to \u201cget off the dialysis machine and live life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leonardo Riella<\/strong>, medical director of the kidney transplant program at Massachusetts General Hospital and the study\u2019s lead author, said that the biggest current crisis in the field of transplantation is the shortage of organs. For this reason, he believes that \u201cxenotransplantation could help address this shortage<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tom Andrews preparing for surgery. KateFlock\/Massachusetts General Hospital.
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\nTim Andrews, 66, received a transplant of a genetically modified porcine kidney in January 2025. The procedure was performed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and Andrews lived with the kidney for 271 days. During that period, he was able to stop dialysis, which had kept him alive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33847,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[259,4640],"tags":[1530597,1530618,747346,1530594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satdi.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satdi.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satdi.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satdi.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satdi.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/satdi.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satdi.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satdi.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satdi.umh.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}