In a medical first, kidneys from genetically modified pig implanted into brain-dead patient. The experiment is part of the growing field of xenotransplantation, or the sourcing of animal organs to try to solve the human organ supply crisis.
Meanwhile, days before Locke and her team performed their operation, a functioning kidney from a genetically altered pig was attached for 54 hours to a patient’s thigh at NYU Langone Health.
“Is this an approach that will solve the organ shortage? It is an approach that has the potential to solve the organ shortage,” he said. “For a therapy like this to be fully understood takes a long time.” Parsons’ ex-wife, Julie O’Hara, with whom he had two grown children, said enrolling him in the experiment was an easy decision. Parsons was a person who would “stop what he’s doing and help anyone in need,” she said.
“I just wish that I could see the look on his face knowing that, my gosh, he has potentially led the way to saving hundreds of thousands of people’s lives,” O’Hara said. “I think he would be so proud that he was able to do that.”
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