Transplanted pig kidney works inside patient for record nine months | Learning English from the News สาธารณะ

Tim Andrews from New Hampshire in the United States was aged 66 when he found out that he’d developed kidney disease linked to type 2 diabetes

Andrews received a pig kidney, and it worked inside him for 271 days, the longest on record, US doctors say. He has since received a human kidney transplant. Learn more about this story with Becca and Phil.

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