The experiment at NYU Langone Health marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a deceased one.
The latest experiment announced Wednesday by NYU Langone Health marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a deceased one -– and it’s not over. Researchers are set to track the kidney’s performance for a second month.
The possibility that pig kidneys might one day help ease a dire shortage of transplantable organs persuaded the family of Maurice "Mo" Miller from upstate New York to donate his body for the experiment. He'd died suddenly at 57 with a previously undiagnosed brain cancer, ruling out routine organ donation.
The NYU experiment is one of a string of developments aimed at speeding the start of such clinical trials. Also Wednesday, the University of Alabama at Birmingham reported another important success -- a pair of pig kidneys worked normally inside another donated body for seven days. But how do pig organs react to a more common human immune attack that takes about a month to form? Only longer testing might tell.
As they raced back to NYU, Montgomery was removing both kidneys from the donated body so there'd be no doubt if the soon-to-arrive pig version was working. One pig kidney was transplanted, the other stored for comparison when the experiment ends.
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