Cell Transplantation

First Pig Liver Cells Used To Keep Liver Patient Alive

Published in Blood Weekly, December 28th, 1998

A Washington state woman who needs a liver transplant to stay alive has become the first person in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. to receive treatment using pig livers to buy time to search for an organ donor.

The woman suffered a rare adverse reaction to a prescription drug causing liver failure requiring a transplant, said Dr. John Rabkin, Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU).

"As a treatment for patients with livers that fail, we only have transplants," Rabkin said. The OHSU program is the only transplant program in the Northwest to offer treatment using pig livers to perform dialysis, he said.

Kidney dialysis, which...

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