Surgeons at the University of Pittsburgh's Presbyterian University Hospital completed a routine liver biopsy Friday on the recipient of the world's first baboon liver transplant and found no evidence of rejection.
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The procedure was done in the operating room and involved inserting a needle through the abodomen into the liver and removing a small sample of tissue, said a hospital spokeswoman.In addition, doctors determined the liver had grown 30 to 50 percent larger than its original size. Baboon livers are smaller than human's and doctors had predicted the transplanted organ would grow.