Pig Liver Successfully Transplanted Into Human Patient in World First

A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned normally for the duration of the investigation with no signs of rejection. For 10 days, the liver performed its basic metabolic functions in a patient diagnosed with brain death, according to a team of doctors led by Kai-Shan Tao, Zhao-Xu Yang, Xuan Zhang, and Hong-Tao Zhang of the Fourth Military Medical University in China. This is the first time the transplantation of a pig liver has been described in a peer-reviewed publication, offering hope for patients of late-stage liver disease for whom transplants are often the only…