Pig kidney transplant to human - Transplanting Hope
US Medical Team Completes Another Pig
Will animal
Surgeons Transplant Pig Kidney Into A Human For The First Time, But Is It Ethical?
When researchers tried such experiments using nonhuman primates in the mid-20th century, the scientists found that the transplanted organ would quickly turn black.
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She told The Associated Press the experiment marks the beginning of a planned series of pig kidney transplants.
A kidney transplant from a pig to a human has worked. What you need to know
Organ donors: Demand outstrips supply Consequently, wait times for a kidney can range from four months to six years depending on blood type, geographic location, disease severity, immune system activity, and other factors.
For patients receiving a nonhuman organ, a procedure called a xenotransplantation, that risk is multiplied.
For a patient to live, somebody else must die.
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