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When it comes to saving someone’s life, doctors become the messenger of God. With technology and their courage, the doctors have given new life to countless people. Now a case has come up from China, in which doctors have resorted to a pig to save the life of a human being.
Chinese scientists and doctors announced in a study published in Nature Medicine on Monday that for the first time a pig’s lung has been planted in humans. Scientists of National Clinical Research in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou put a pig’s lung in a person who was mentally dead. After surgery, he continued to work properly for 9 days.
What is zenotransplantation?
Transplanting of organs of various species is called zenotransplantation and is seen as a possible solution of global organ-map crisis. According to Guangzhou study, pigs have recently progressed in humans with heart and kidney zenotransplantation, but the lungs give special challenges due to their ‘physical and physical complexity’.
Among other things, direct contact with the lungs with outer air leads to the risk of infection naturally. But 22 months, 70 kg of male Chinese Bama Jiang Pigy was alive and monitored for more than a week after transplanting a liver to a male human patient.
Research will benefit
After doing a little more research in this technique of success, scientists, it can be carried forward. This success highlights the progress made in genetic amendments and immune repressive strategies, but also underlines major challenges that must be resolved for clinical translation.
