China Man For Die, But Pig Liver Save Am For 170 Days

Doctors for China don score big win for science as dem report say one 71-year-old man live 171 days after dem transplant gene-edited pig liver give am. Di pig liver stay for him body for 38 days, dey work well as support system, na di first time wey pig-to-human liver transplant go enter peer-reviewed journal. Dem do di surgery for May 2024 for First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, using liver from cloned pig wey be 11 months old, and wey don collect 10 genetic edits to reduce wahala like rejection or infection. Di man sef chop immune-suppressing drugs to help him body accept di foreign liver.

Scientists don dey succeed before with pig heart and kidney, but liver na another level because e dey big, get double blood supply, and e do plenty work like cleaning blood, removing toxins and producing clotting proteins. But Dr. Beicheng Sun, di hospital president, yan say dis experiment don change di game. Di patient, wey get hepatitis B-related cirrhosis and big tumor, no get human donor, so him and him daughter gree make dem try pig liver. Di liver begin function sharp-sharp, dey red and dey produce bile, and indicators improve. But by day 25, signs of rejection show and dem remove di liver on day 38. Di man still dey okay till day 135 when internal bleeding kill am on day 171. Experts hail di research as groundbreaking, say e prove say pig liver fit buy time for patients wey dey wait human liver or make dia own recover. Demand for human liver still high, second only to kidney.