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Orthotopic Porcine Liver and Kidney Xenotransplantation as a Step Toward Multi-Organ Replacement.

Key takeaways

Researchers report placing pig livers and pig kidneys into the normal body position of a recipient, as a step toward replacing more than one organ at once. This record has no abstract, so key details are missing here, including how many recipients there were and how long the organs kept working. Work at this stage is done in animals, not in people yet.

Who did this work

Kim H · Byun J · Kim SU · Kwon T · Uh K

Source

Article · PubMed, xeno · 2026 Aug 24
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42695047/