NYU surgeons successfully test pig kidney transplant in human patient

NY Post ^ | 10/20/2021 | Yaron Steinbuch

[DFG]

Surgeons at a New York City hospital have successfully attached a pig’s kidney to a person, whose immune system didn’t immediately reject the organ — a ground-breaking procedure that may one day lead to the use of animals in life-saving transplants.

The recipient at NYU Langone Health was a brain-dead woman who received the kidney of a pig whose genes had been altered so its tissues no longer harbored a molecule known to trigger almost immediate rejection, according to Reuters.

The family of the patient — who showed signs of kidney dysfunction — consented to the experiment before she was due to be removed from life support, scientists told the outlet.

Researchers had access to the kidney for three days as the organ was maintained outside her body while attached to her blood vessels, according to the news outlet.

Dr. Robert Montgomery, who led the study, said test results from the kidney’s function “looked pretty normal,” adding that the organ produced “the amount of urine that you would expect” from a transplanted human kidney.

[frank ballenger]

Funny.

Plus the patient kept trying to push aside the Dems and RINOs at the tax money hog trough. Snarling fights.

[NEMDF]

Just wondering whether they made the pig get its Covid shots before the transplant.

[DoughtyOne]

Not long. It has to be implanted.

snicker

[DoughtyOne]

It’s not the viability that’s an issue.

It’s that sudden urge to oink every three minutes that’s the
problem.

[null and void]

Pig to human organ transplants were tried in the past, the first organ would last maybe a week tops, the second a few days, and soon the surgeon would report that the immune response was so dramatic that he could watch the organ starting to blacken and die the instant he connected the patient's blood supply.

Pigs have (IIRC) a glycoprotein on their cell surface that humans lack. It provokes a strong immune response.

Knock out the gene that produces that protein, and you're left with little greater a challenge than a human to human transplant, except there are a whole lot more pig organs available than Uyghurs...

[Veto!]

Poor pig. Too nice an animal to experiment with. Should have a happy life and become dinner, not a body part.

[Red Badger]

Man-Bear-Pig?................

[null and void]

I look forward to the day when human organs can be grown from the patient’s own stem cells.

I look forward to the day when human organs can be grown from stem cells that are a perfect tissue match to the patient, without the genetics that caused the original organ to fail...

[Red Badger]

This little piggy went to ............. the hospital...................

[Bratch]

Mmm, bacon...

[null and void]

[Red Badger]

LOL! I just saw that cartoon last week!...................

[null and void]

We know...

[Renkluaf]

And the patient morphed into bacon.

[Baldwin77]

Is the pig vaccinated?

[outofsalt]

A lot of people don’t realize how many uses there are for pig parts. Do you know the most common use for pig skin?
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The most common use for pig skin is, holding pigs together!)
Course, cracklins are yummy!

[Crim]

Was the pig vaccinated?

[dfwgator]

Pig man?

Ha Ha Charade, you are.

[liberalh8ter]

My Mom had a pig’s valve put into her heart. The surgeons told her she should get 7-10 years out of it and instead, it lasted about 20. I asked her at the 15 year mark what she was doing to keep that little pig’s valve going and she told me she stopped eating pork. Dear Lord, I miss that woman so much!

[Gene Eric]

I believe piggy heart valves have been in play for quite some time now