Dr. Mike: Pig kidney transplant may signal new era in organ transplantation

Dr. Mike: Pig kidney transplant may signal new era in organ transplantation

It's being called a medical breakthrough for the future of organ transplantation. Surgeons successfully transplanted a kidney from a pig into a patient who had been declared brain dead. Surgeons say this is the longest a gene-edited pig kidney has functioned in a human body. FOX medical contributor Dr. Mike Cirigliano joined Good Day Chicago to talk more about it.

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