Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig's kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past them.
The dramatic experiment came to an end Wednesday as surgeons at NYU Langone Health removed the pig kidney and returned the donated body of Maurice "Mo" Miller to his family for cremation.
Montgomery, himself a recipient of a heart transplant, sees animal-to-human transplants as crucial to ease the nation's organ shortage. More than 100,000 people are on the national waiting list, most who need a kidney, and thousands will die waiting. Montgomery gambled that maintaining Miller's body on a ventilator for two months to see how the pig kidney worked could answer some of those questions.
"This has been quite the journey," Miller-Duffy said as she and her wife Sue Duffy hugged Montgomery's team. "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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