Can transplant ... kidney and pig heart for humans

The group of British and American doctors has announced that they will transplant pig kidneys for people this year and 3 years later will have a pig heart beating in someone's chest.

Sir Terence English, the famous surgeon presided over the first heart surgery in the UK 40 years ago, recently announced that he and his colleagues had a new breakthrough in the use of . pig organs for transplantation. for human.

Will pig organs be the savior for many patients in the future?

The new technique, called "xenotransplantation" by the research team, is expected to save many lives by the source of donations from living people, which are often lacking around the world. To transplant a heart is also extremely difficult because the donated heart needs to be removed from the human body when they have just died brain, transplanted right into the recipient within a few hours. Organ donors also require many biologically compatible and sized conditions.

Sir Terence English, the famous British surgeon has just announced himself and American colleagues have made a breakthrough in the technique of pig heart transplantation.

Dr. Sir Terence English said his team at the University of Alabama (USA) has made breakthrough genetic advances and will therefore try to transplant a pig kidney for an anonymous volunteer this year. Within the next 3 years, the first pig heart transplant will be performed.

The reason the kidney is selected for the previous test is because if the operation is not successful, the recipient of the pig heart can still remove this organ and dialysis again as before while waiting for a kidney transplant or a The pig kidney is different from the more complete technique.

In December 2018, a research team from Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich-Germany) published a shocking article in the journal Nature: a baboon - a very close human biological relative. lived 195 days after transplanting a pig heart.

A statistics of the US Federal Organ Sharing Network shows that about 20 people die every day due to inadequate waiting for an organ transplant. In the UK, statistics show that about 1,000 people die each year because of this reason.

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