Posted on 01/22/2022 3:33:10 AM PST by ransomnote
It's a step toward clinical trials involving live patients.
A group of surgeons from the University of Alabama at Birmingham has proven that it's possible to genetically alter a pig so that its kidneys can be used on human transplant patients. The doctors have transplanted kidneys from a genetically altered pig into the abdomen of a brain-dead man, and as The New York Times has reported, the procedure was described in a paper published in the American Journal of Transplantation.
According to the doctors, the kidneys from the pig started producing urine as soon as 23 minutes after the procedure and continued to do so for three days. The patient's kidneys were fully removed, and his body didn't show signs of rejecting the transplanted organs. This is the latest in a series of developments wherein organs from genetically altered pigs were successfully transplanted into humans. In late 2021, NYU Langone Health doctors attached a pig kidney onto the blood vessels of a brain-dead patient's upper leg. And, just a few days ago, doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine transplanted a pig's heart into a live patient as part of an experimental procedure.
The UAB surgeons performed the procedure with consent from the family of the recipient, James Parsons, who wanted to be an organ donor. They're now naming this type of study after him. While the recipient was brain dead in this case, it's a big step toward a clinical trial involving live patients that they're hoping would start later this year. Dr. Jayme Locke, the team's lead surgeon, said this wasn't a one-off experiment, and that the hope is to "advance the field to help... patients."
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“in a brain-dead patient”
Every time I read those words “brain dead” I immediately think of Biden. I wonder why.
When did Joe Biden’s Kidneys fail? /S
My mom donated her body to the local university to be used by the medical students. After she was dead of course!
I’m glad this man was also to help with medical research. I can’t imagine being his family and making the decision to admit that there is no hope in his survival.
But I guess they can be comforted that from this research many others may survive.
Seems he was more of a recipient than donor. Question is, how long before people start being made brain dead because the living cadavers are worth a lot of money?
Sadly, I think that ship has sailed. The minorities in China are subject to live (unsedated) organ harvesting - there’s no humanity left in such circumstances.
I just hope the man was really brain dead.
A few years ago I contacted the organization that runs the donation process to find out who the recipient was and how he is doing today but they couldn't provide me with that information since it was confidential.
Too late...been dead so long it’s in an advanced state of decay.
Just seems wrong doesn’t it?
When I hear that phrase, I think of those who have been called “brain dead” who came back from the condition.
No worries, both the pig and the patient can now vote Dem.
Is that the guy who got the kidneys?🤗
So did my cousin, who passed away this summer. When her daughter called the university to come pick up the body, she was told that they weren't accepting bodies for the duration of the Covid epidemic. As a result, she had to scramble to find a mortuary who would collect the body and arrange for cremation. In the meantime, my cousin's body sat all day in the chair where she had died.
I remember in college a course in Anatomy & Physiology, eheheh in the lab portion we dissected fetal pigs. Their internal configuration is very similar to humans. In cardiology there’s something called porcine heart valve replacement which are from pigs. As for pig kidney transplants to humans I’ll have to read up how they can be genetically altered as to not be rejected. Helping severely ill patients are one thing but carrying such technology over into the realm of Frankenstein like possibilities are quite another twisted taboo ridden ventures.
That’s been a question and a concern in the organ transplant community for decades.
This is one of the reasons I’m grateful I received my transplanted kidney from a living donor.
Would this technique be acceptable to Jewish or Muslim patients?
I don’t know why, but the biden reminds me of max headroom
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gGtWvrAhC1M
they should have attempted to transplant a pig brain as well as a kidney.
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