Becker's Healthcare December 19, 2024
2024 marked a big year for the field of xenotransplantation, with surgical teams at several health systems completing historic procedures that could pave the way for broader adoption of animal-to-human organ transplants.
In January, researchers at Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine announced the first successful experiment of circulating a deceased donor’s blood through a genetically edited pig liver outside of their body. While patients with heart and kidney failure can be kept alive with mechanical options, no similar therapy exists for patients with liver failure. This experimental method could be used as a temporary treatment to extend the lives of patients awaiting a liver transplant if proved safe and feasible, researchers said.
Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston completed...
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