A historic medical accomplishment that ended in tragedy may yet have a silver lining.
The 62-year-old Slayman died just two months after he underwent the experimental procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital inApril 2024.
Early experiments using these organs have largely been performed onanimalsandpeopledeclared brain-dead.
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Health regulators have begun allowing researchers to perform these experimental transplants on living patients who have few other options.
These procedures, groundbreaking as they are, have yet to yield a clear success story.
And this technology will continue to be tested more extensively in humans.
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