Thursday, May 19, 2022 from 2:00 PM ET to 3:00 PM ET • Hosted jointly by AST's Education Committee and Kidney Pancreas Community of Practice (KPCOP)
"First clinical-grade porcine kidney xenotransplant using a human decedent model"
(Am J Transplant. 2022 Jan 20. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16930. Online ahead of print.)
In this article:
A radical solution is needed for the organ supply crisis, and the domestic pig is a promising organ source. In preparation for a clinical trial of xenotransplantation, [the authors] developed an in vivo pre-clinical human model to test safety and feasibility tenets established in animal models. After performance of a novel, prospective compatible crossmatch, [the authors] performed bilateral native nephrectomies in a human brain-dead decedent and subsequently transplanted two kidneys from a pig genetically engineered for human xenotransplantation.... [The] study suggests that major barriers to human xenotransplantation have been surmounted and identifies where new knowledge is needed to optimize xenotransplantation outcomes in humans.
Speakers:
- Paige Porrett, MD, PhD • University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
- Jayme Locke, MD, MPH, FACS, FAST • University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Moderators:
- Andrew Adams, MD, PhD • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- Burcin Ekser, MD, PhD • Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
AST/AJT Journal Clubs are free, but registration is required.