With more research, the cutting-edge technique could someday potentially help preserve human organs for longer, allowing more people to receive transplants.
While the research is still at an extremely early stage and very experimental, the researchers said they hoped that their work in pigs could ultimately be applied to humans, primarily in terms of developing ways to extend the window for transplants. The current supply of organs is extremely limited, with millions of people worldwide waiting for transplants.
"You could take the organ from a deceased donor, and hook it up to the perfusion technology, and perhaps then be able to transport it long distance over a long period of time to get it to a recipient who needs it." "We couldn't say that this study showed that any of the organs of this pig were ... ready for transplant into another animals, we don't know that they're all functioning, what we're looking at is at the cellular and metabolic levels," explained Latham. "And we're nowhere near being able to say, 'Oh, my goodness, we've restored life not only to this pig, but to any of the individual organs.' We can't say that yet.
The researchers used up to 100 pigs as part of the study and the animals were under anesthetic when the heart attack was induced.
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