Tag: Xenotransplantation
Xenotransplantation: swine virus in donor heart – virus infection caused patient death after two months
Transplant successful, patient still dead: In the first transplant of a pig heart into a human, the patient survived only two months. Doctors could now have found the reason for…
Pig heart patient dies two months after surgery
It was an operation that attracted worldwide attention: two months ago, a genetically modified pig heart was transplanted to a 57-year-old in the USA. Now he is dead. What the…
Surgeons associate pig kidney with human health
In a two-hour operation, surgeons connected the kidney of a genetically modified pig to the bloodstream of a brain-dead woman. The organ started working almost immediately, said Robert Montgomery of…