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Pig-to-non-human Primate Heart Transplantation: The Final Step Toward Clinical Xenotransplantation?

from The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Pig-to-non-human Primate Heart Transplantation: The Final Step Toward Clinical Xenotransplantation? The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation The demand for donated human hearts far exceeds the number available. Xenotransplantation of genetically modified porcine organs provides an alternative. In 2000, an Advisory Board of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation set the benchmark for commencing clinical cardiac xenotransplantation as consistent 60% survival of non-human primates after life-supporting porcine heart transplantations. READ MORE

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