Latest Pig-to-Human Heart Transplant: Back to the Drawing Board?
Researchers hope to learn more from xenotransplants in brain-dead recipients
Source: medpagetoday.com
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Researchers hope to learn more from xenotransplants in brain-dead recipients
For example, heart injury at autopsy didn't resemble standard graft rejection in humans or other primates, researchers said, nor did viral infection seem a likely cause of graft failure.
Concrete answers still lacking for why rejection occurred