More than 100,000 Americans are waiting for an organ replacement. A breakthrough surgery offers hope animals may help fill the void.NEW YORK – Dr. Robert Montgomery planned for this moment for three years.
Scientists for decades have dreamed of xenotransplantation: using animals to solve the shortage of organs available for human transplant. 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 attackJumping 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.
If the procedure worked, the next step would be to test a pig organ in a living person, probably someone with a short life expectancy or whose life is in immediate danger. The donation was particularly emotional for Montgomery, coming less than a week after the third anniversary of his own heart transplant.
Montgomery had started a program at NYU allowing such donations. Many people remain uncomfortable accepting an organ from someone with hepatitis C, but treated and cured of the dangerous liver infection before he had any symptoms, Montgomery remains immensely grateful for the gift. The surgical team at NYU Langone Health examines the pig kidney for any signs of rejection. The organ was implanted outside the body to allow for observation and tissue sampling during the 54-hour study period."From an ethical perspective, PETA has always been opposed to the use of sentient animals as warehouses for human spare parts. Animals are not spare parts," Alka Chandna, the organization's vice president of laboratory investigations cases, said in an email.
“To my mind there’s not a fundamental concern there," Pacholczyk said, "since this would be an instance of 'donating one's body to science' after death."Montgomery returned from Virginia – missing the rehearsal dinner – around about 11 p.m., just as others on his team took off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, headed to the pig farm. A veterinarian and veterinarian anesthetist were waiting when they arrived and helped perform the surgery.
There is a Solution to the ORGAN TRANSPLANT CRISIS ! Do like they Do in CHINA ! Execute the Criminals, and use their Organs ! Problem Solved !
I may need one of those one day. I am all for it. Long as it don't come with snorting Lol. Good luck to tge recipient. In my prayers for a speedy recovery. 💖
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Hope she isn't a Muslim
That's a delicacy in the south.
Yet another reason to murder animals. Humans won't be happy til we're the only living thing on the planet.
nice
I'm not going to be the one to tell her when she wakes up.
Hmmm, wonder if bacon tastes better after?
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