720510login-checkAnother step toward using animal organs: Pig kidney sustains brain-dead man for a month |
By Karen Weintraub
Doctors in New York have managed to keep a brain-dead man in a state of sort of suspended animation for more than a month after removing his kidneys and replacing them with one from a pig.
A ventilator has kept 57-year-old Maurice Miller’s heart beating and other organs functioning while the pig kidney produces urine and other normal byproducts. Read the full story in USA Today.
720510login-checkAnother step toward using animal organs: Pig kidney sustains brain-dead man for a month |