The world's first pig kidney transplant patient died two months after surgery.
On the evening of 12 May, the topic of "the world's first pig kidney transplant patient died" rushed to the hot search.

According to media reports on 12 May, Richard Slayman, the first human pig kidney transplant patient, died at the age of 62 less than two months after the operation. The Massachusetts General Hospital research team officially announced the news on 11 May local time.

In March this year, Rick Slayman underwent the world's first genetically modified pig kidney transplant, a four-hour operation. By early April, Slayman was successfully discharged from the hospital after a good recovery, which was widely regarded as a milestone event in the field of medicine, but the final result is still regrettable.

In addition, two years ago, the world's first patient to receive a transgenic pig heart transplant also died two months after the operation. This poses a challenge to survival after living human xenotransplantation.