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Is this really "a medical first" as the article states? I would have sworn that I heard about pig hearts being transplanted into humans at least a decade ago...
by mastazi 5y ago
Is this really "a medical first" as the article states? I would have sworn that I heard about pig hearts being transplanted into humans at least a decade ago... Anyone from the medical field can give some background? Or am I imagining things? :-)
- adamgrim 5y agoFrom another article: “ In September, Montgomery moved the work forward by becoming the first to transplant a pig kidney into a person, but in that case, and a subsequent surgery in December, the person had been declared brain dead. Montgomery kept the body functioning via machine for more than two days each time, showing that the human immune system would not immediately reject a kidney from a gene-edited pig.”
- mastazi 5y agooh, I see, so I guess it's correct to say that this is the first "real" transplant and previous attempts were experiments. Also, apparently, transplants of heart valves from pigs have been around for a while, see this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29883619 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29883619