Robert Montgomery, a New York transplant surgeon, conducted a successful surgery that transplanted a pig's kidney into a brain-dead human.
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Pigs, whose organs are about the right size and can be bred easily and quickly, offer a promising alternative for organ transplants.
But before tying a person's fate to a pig's organ, Montgomery, head of the Transplant Institute at NYU Langone Health, wanted to prove that the procedure wouldn't trigger an immediate immune attack.
Jumping the species barrier is perilous. In 1984, after years of study, Leonard Bailey, a transplant surgeon at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California, thought he had overcome the immune system's rapid rejection of foreign organs.
He transplanted a baboon heart into a 12-day-old baby born with a deformed heart. Nicknamed “Baby Fae,” she died 21 days later because her blood type was incompatible with the monkey's.
Though unsuccessful, the experience was pathbreaking. The next year, Bailey performed the first human-to-human heart transplant in a baby. Bailey died in 2019 at age 76; many of his transplant patients have outlived him.
Montgomery's pig had Type O blood, which made it a universal donor. The surgery was funded by a $3.2 million grant from United Therapeutics, a biotechnology company based in Silver Spring, Maryland, involved in treatments for lung disease.
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Science is amazing. Perhaps a future where we don’t need human donors.
Lol you need a brain donor.
Yep science is covid made in a lab.. thanks science
Pigs??
Frankensteins.
1John 4:3
@Retepo Krug Amen!
If this can be replicated, it would truly be a game changer for so many who are languishing on dialysis every day—most of whom will die before ever receiving a transplant.
Or this channel is garbage and everything they say is BS. Hard to tell.
@Alan Malcheski I can’t comment on the channel itself but the transplant has been verified by other outlets.
Actually it can be game changer .
Out of 100 kidney patients 70 need a transplantation and every time relatives are not ready to donate a kidney so if it is really possible than its a hoop such people who has to regularly go for dialysis.
Interesting.
Wow, what an unexpectedly nice guy! Good on you, Dr.! Live long and prosper!
Science should solve age as a disease..
God bless you and power to you. Lots of Love from India ❤️
This might be a major breakthrough. We and you have all cause to celebrate this. I am absolutely fascinated!
Too bad Dave chapels Netflix special controversy is getting more coverage than this……….
and they are laughing all the way to the bank making billions off of this
WOW, great job 👏 👍
Best wishes from Pakistan 🇵🇰
Look , our next Republican candidate for President.
I didn’t even know Joe Biden had kidney problems.
Is trump the pig?
@Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera That TDS is going to eat you up.
Haram NO PORK!!!🤬🤬🤬🙄😰🥶🥶🥶🥶لقد ارتكبت جرائم حرب في التبت😂😂😂😡😡😡😡🤯
Stop being silly.
Dang, I read that some people have been dead up to eight hours and then brought back to life, without brain damage ….so don’t be so quick to put me in the ground
Thank you Dr. …
Wait until PETA comes in.
Orwell was right. At the end of Animal Farm, he says, “And you couldn’t tell the pigs from the men.”
wtf
What if I’m allergic to pork?
This would piss me off