A Chinese team has transplanted a pig\u2019s kidneys and liver into a patient who had suffered brain death, a world first that could pave the way for multi-organ animal-to-human transplants.<\/p>\n
After the operation, the organs functioned within the 53-year-old man for nearly five days before the study was ended in line with his family\u2019s wishes.<\/p>\n
Xenotransplantation, or the transplant of organs or tissues from one species to another, could help tackle global organ shortages that leave patients in limbo or worse.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis study provides initial evidence for the feasibility of pig-to-human orthotopic whole liver plus bilateral kidney transplantation,\u201d the team said in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Med on May 29.<\/p>\n
Orthotopic transplant means the placement of the organs in the correct anatomical position within the body after the old organs are removed.<\/p>\n
The team, led by researchers from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, said their study also identified early immune and metabolic features that could inform future clinical practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese team has transplanted a pig\u2019s kidneys and liver into a patient who had suffered brain death,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[114,210670,103,61,60,161140,210665,210673,210667,210671,210668,210666,210669,90,210672],"class_list":["post-490379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-china","tag-guangxi-medical-university","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-med","tag-multi-organ-animal-to-human-transplants","tag-organ-rejection","tag-organ-shortages","tag-orthotopic-transplant","tag-pig-liver","tag-pigs-kidneys","tag-second-affiliated-hospital","tag-us","tag-xenotransplantation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}