For the first time in medical history, a pig kidney has been transplanted into the human body. This treatment could potentially be an alternative to transplantation of human organs for transplantation.
At the Langone Health Hospital in New York City, a pig’s genes were modified to remove particles from its muscles that react immediately.
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Doctors performed the experiment with the permission of a patient’s family before removing her from life support. The girl’s kidneys were damaged.
For three days, the new kidney was connected to the girl’s body through blood vessels, but the kidney was not transplanted so that researchers could have access to it.
Dr Robert Montgomery, who led the study, said the transplanted pig kidney was functioning normally.
Dr. Robert said that the transplanted kidney produced as much urine as a normal human kidney, and there was no evidence that there was no contact between the human body and the pig’s kidney.
Kidney failure caused abnormal control of creatinine levels in the patient’s body, which returned to normal after a pig’s kidney infection.
According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, more than 90,000 people in the United States are currently waiting for a kidney transplant, typically a man who has to wait three to five years for a transplant.
Dr. Robert Montgomery has successfully transplanted a pig’s kidney, paving the way for a new future in which lives can be saved by transplanting animal organs other than the kidney into the human body.