Autopsy confirms Pataskala woman died from blood loss after pigs mauled her legs
An autopsy has determined that a 75-year-old Pataskala woman died after she was mauled by pigs. Deputy Licking County Coroner C. Jeff Lee told WOSU on Thursday that Rebecca Westergaard died at her Mink Street home from a loss of blood. Lee says that was because of injuries to the lower part of her legs caused by the animals.
scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more human-like. Looney donated a kidney to her mother in 1999. Later a complication during pregnancy caused high blood pressure that ...
During a four-hour procedure, a surgical team connected the pig kidney's blood vessels and ureter - the duct that carries urine from the kidney to the bladder - with those of 62-year-old Richard ...
The pig kidneys can clearly make urine and clear out waste, like their human counterpart, but a longer transplant will be needed to prove whether they can also regulate blood pressure, fluid ...
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An Alabama woman is doing well after the latest experimental pig kidney transplantNEW YORK (AP) — An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years ...
But 47 days after the transplant, her doctors elected to remove the pig kidney following several episodes of the heart pump not being able to pass enough blood through her new kidney. The kidney ...
She is currently the healthiest person to receive a pig organ yet. She had been on the transplant list waiting for a human kidney, but her blood was so full of antibodies that she says her body ...
outfitting her with a pig kidney just days after implanting a mechanical heart pump. But inadequate blood flow soon damaged the kidney, and surgeons were forced to remove it six weeks later.
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