Washington – A student who is studying a lot in self -described science is the latest American to get Diabetes transplantationIn a decisive point in seeking to prove whether animal organs may be already Save human life.
Doctors at Massachusetts Hospital announced on Monday that a 54 -year -old New Hampshire runs after his operation on June 14.
“I really wanted to contribute to his knowledge,” Bill Stewart, a Dover sports coach, New Hampshire, told Associated Press.
This is not the only teacher that the group’s general team distinguishes: I kept a pig’s kidneys another man in New Hampshire, Tim Andrews, off dialysis For a record of seven months and count. To date, it was known that the transplantation of pig members known as the gene It was 130 days.
Based on the lessons of New Hampshire men and a handful of other attempts for one time, the Food and Drug Administration agreed to the pig product to start a strict study of kidney transplants.
“Now we have the bottleneck” in finding a sufficient number of human organs, the general kidney specialist for the year Dr. Leonardo Riela, who will help lead the new clinical experience.
More than 100,000 people are in the American transplant list, most of them who need a college, and thousands die waiting. As an alternative, scholars Genetic change of pigs So their organs are more humane, less likely to attack and immediately destroy them by people’s immune system.
Initial experiments, two hearts and two kidneys, were short -term and included very sick patients. Chinese researchers It also recently announced a dungeon’s kidneys, but it released a little information. After that, a woman in Alabama helped her kidneys, whose pig lasted 130 days before rejection, sent her to dialysis, and helped researchers to turn into patients who did not care.
In New Hampshire, high blood pressure caused the failure of the kidney in Stewart but had no other health problems. It may take up to seven years for people who have a blood type to find a matching college from a deceased donor, and some neighborhood donors have not qualified. Two years later in dialysis, heard about the latest recipient of Xenotransplant in Mass GENERAL – Andrews – and he asked to be the next filter.
Stewart said: “I have always been a little of the student who taught a lot in science,” Stewart said. The quality of these experiments, Andrews has asked for advice and eventually decided, “The worst scenario, they can always direct them.”
Stewart said that he no longer enjoys his time and energy that is saved by dialysis, that he returns to office duties at work and visited an old dialysis clinic “to inform everyone that I do everything well and may give some people some hope.”
Riela, a kidney specialist, said that Stewart had anti -rejection medications that had been modified to face early attention and that Andrews need similar modifications. He said that it is too early to predict the time when the kidneys may be able to continue – but it would be useful even if they can initially buy leave time from dialysis until they get a matching human organ.
“A year, we hope for longer – this is already a great advantage,” he said.
The new Egenesis experience will provide modified pigs to 30 people at the age of 50 or older, in dialysis and implant menu. Another developer for genes approved by genes, united Therapics, is about to start registering people in a similar study approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
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