The University of Alabama with Revicor have made a better pig. Better for transplanting. And they transplanted a pair of these into a brain dead patient. The filtrate discuss the case report with transplant surgeon, Josh Mezrich.

The Filtrate:

Joel Topf

Joshua Waitzman

Nayan Arora

Jordy Cohen

Special Guest:

Josh Mezrich

Editor:

Nayan Arora

Show Notes:

When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon. Amazon

Am J Transplant 2022 Jan 20. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16930. PMID: 35049121

Coverage on NephJC

First transplant of a pig into a human. NYU transplant.

Keith Reemtsma’s experience with chimpanzees transplantation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1408776/?page=1

Infection of human cells by an endogenous retrovirus of pigs

United Therapeutics page on xenokidney.

Article by Starzl on the early days of kidney transplant, including David Humes experiment grafting kidneys to the arms and grafts of patients. The Early Days of Transplantation

Patient in Groundbreaking Heart Transplant Dies

Heterotopic heart transplantation: where do we stand?

Denton Cooley and the first artificial heart transplant

For the First Time in North America, a Woman Gives Birth After Uterus Transplant From a Deceased Donor

Blacksburg company raised genetically modified pig for first heart transplant into human

Christiaan Barnard and the first human-to-human heart transplant

Making The Impossible Possible: A Conversation With Martine Rothblatt. The founder of United Therapeutics and SiriusXM

Paige Porrett, M.D., Ph.D. first author

Jayme Locke, M.D., MPH senior author

Louise Penny author page

The Four Questions

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