A medical milestone in transplants took place on USA, when surgeons transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a neuropathic patient.
On March 19, 2024, it was held at Massachusetts General Hospital, USA the first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62-year-old neuropath. According to the treating doctors, the man continues to improve.
If the transplant is ultimately successful, it will offer hope to hundreds of thousands of neuropathy patients and make dialysis obsolete. So far, the signs are promising.
The kidneys remove waste products και την περίσσεια υγρών από το αίμα. Ο νέος νεφρός άρχισε να παράγει ούρα λίγο μετά το χειρουργείο που πραγματοποιήθηκε το περασμένο Σαββατοκύριακο και η κατάσταση του ασθενούς συνεχίζει να βελτιώνεται, σύμφωνα με τους γιατρούς στο Γενικό Νοσοκομείο της Μασαχουσέτης, γνωστό ως Mass General. Ήδη περπατά στις αίθουσες του νοσοκομείου και ενδέχεται να πάρει εξιτήριο σύντομα.
The patient is black and the procedure may be of particular importance to black patients, who suffer from high rates of end-stage renal disease. End-stage kidney disease is three times more common in black Americans than in white Americans.
According to Dr. Winfred Williams, associate chief of nephrology at Mass General and the patient's primary nephrologist, “A new source of kidneys could solve an intractable problem, the insufficient access of kidney transplant patients".
If kidneys from genetically modified animals can be transplanted on a large scale, dialysis "will become obsolete," said Dr. Leonardo V. Riella, medical director of kidney transplantation at Mass General.
