Guest guest Posted February 22, 2002 Report Share Posted February 22, 2002 , read an interesting article the other day on this...there is something in a pig's liver that the human body begins to destroy almost immediately...they now know how to turn that off and are breeding pigs without this 'gene' (for lack of better word or understanding), they expect to do successful pig to human liver transplants within five years... go figure eh? Patti >From: Kkbhirsh@... >Reply-To: >To: >Subject: Pigs >Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:17:51 EST > >Dont ya like how I start my " subject heading " ? >I think Andi will find this interesting (and maybe others). I wear my >green >donor pin at work all the time- along with my permanent green ribbon tattoo >(for those that dont know me). Anyway. I fellow co-worker, Kent, and I >have >had several donor talks. His best friend was one of the first to have a > " pig " liver hold him over until a human liver was available. Talk about >small world! His friend is doing great right now, except for a minor set >back over christmas. His friend had 2 pig livers- first one reject right >away, the second held him over, the first human liver rejected right away >and >he immediatlly, like within a week, had a second tx. He is now, a few >years >later, doing great! >I wrote Doc about the " pig " program. (He was the one-director that >performed >it) His response, " We did do some pig liver perfusions in the past for >liver failure. Worked ok over the short run. We are not doing it now >since >the FDA has not allowed anyone to do pig livers until further serologic >work >is done " . I found that really interesting. Boy, it helped this guy and he >is doing great. Anything to buy some time would be great! Small >world........ Sincerely, wife of dx 97 _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 22, 2002 Report Share Posted February 22, 2002 Hi!! We are new memebers... I wanted to make up some green ribbon pins to give to our family and friends.( Sorry... I was not sure how to send a e-mail to everyone so I will just reply on this. ) What color of green?? , dark forest, tourquoise or does it matter? Thanks- Elesa * * wrote: , read an interesting article the other day on this...there is something in a pig's liver that the human body begins to destroy almost immediately...they now know how to turn that off and are breeding pigs without this 'gene' (for lack of better word or understanding), they expect to do successful pig to human liver transplants within five years... go figure eh? Patti >From: Kkbhirsh@... >Reply-To: >To: >Subject: Pigs >Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:17:51 EST > >Dont ya like how I start my "subject heading"? >I think Andi will find this interesting (and maybe others). I wear my >green >donor pin at work all the time- along with my permanent green ribbon tattoo >(for those that dont know me). Anyway. I fellow co-worker, Kent, and I >have >had several donor talks. His best friend was one of the first to have a >"pig" liver hold him over until a human liver was available. Talk about >small world! His friend is doing great right now, except for a minor set >back over christmas. His friend had 2 pig livers- first one reject right >away, the second held him over, the first human liver rejected right away >and >he immediatlly, like within a week, had a second tx. He is now, a few >years >later, doing great! >I wrote Doc about the "pig" program. (He was the one-director that >performed >it) His response, " We did do some pig liver perfusions in the past for >liver failure. Worked ok over the short run. We are not doing it now >since >the FDA has not allowed anyone to do pig livers until further serologic >work >is done". I found that really interesting. Boy, it helped this guy and he >is doing great. Anything to buy some time would be great! Small >world........ Sincerely, wife of dx 97 _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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