For a history-making two months, a pig's kidney worked normally inside a brain-dead man
–- but he survived only two months as the organ failed for reasons that aren't completely clear. And the FDA gave Montgomery's team a list of questions about how pig organs really perform their jobs compared to human ones.
Miller-Duffy donated the Newburgh, New York, man's body for the pig experiment. She recently got a card from a stranger in California who's awaiting a kidney transplant, thanking her for helping to move forward desperately needed research. “It looks beautiful, it’s exactly the way normal kidneys look,” Dr. Jeffrey Stern said Wednesday after removing the pig kidney at the 61-day mark for closer examination.
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