Wednesday, 20. October 2021 – 16:01 Update: 21-10-2021 11:25
Brain dead patient
“The kidney was not actually placed in the body as usual because this was an experiment on a brain-dead patient that the family had agreed to before being taken off the ventilator,” he said. Reuters. This patient had signs of renal failure. The surgeons kept the pig kidney outside the body and attached it to the brain-dead patient’s blood vessels so they could better monitor its functioning.
Pig genes changed
The procedure performed at NYU Langone Health in New York City involved using a pig whose genes had been altered. As a result, his tissues no longer contained a molecule known to cause near-instantaneous rejection.
Kidney functioned ‘normally’
The kidney made the normal amount of urine you would expect from a transplanted human kidney, said transplant surgeon Dr. Robert Montgomery, who led the study.
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