Re: Pigs

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,

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@...

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>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

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[Guest guest]

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

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