Pig heart transplants

A sugar in pig cells foreign to the human body causes immediate organ rejection. Heart transplantation is not considered to be a cure for heart disease.

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Pig heart valves are routinely transplanted into humans and some patients with diabetes have received pig pancreas cells.

. Post-operative survival periods average 15 years. Pigs have been the most recent research focus to address the organ shortage but among the hurdles. Scientists temporarily attached a pigs kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.

Approximately 3500 heart transplants are performed each year worldwide more than half of which are in the US. Rather it is a life-saving treatment intended to improve the quality and duration of life for a recipient.

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