Lab Medicine Rounds The ultimate gift: Organ transplantation
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:05 How did you first get interested in supporting organ transplantation?
04:53 What are the organs that we can transplant?
06:00 When we are at the Department of Motor Vehicles, we can register as a donor and make our wishes known to our family, is that right?
07:03 If people are interesting in donating a kidney, for example, do they reach out to their local hospital and let them know they are interested in being a donor?
08:50 How does your work in the Histocompatability laboratory, how does it support transplantation?
10:57 Can you give our audience kind of a flavor of how does this work to do this kind of dance to match donor and recipient and have a successful transplant?
13:11 What’s on the horizon for HLA and histocompatibility in the next couple of years?
18:30 The ability for us to identify a patient, these patients who could not get a transplant are now able to get the transplant because of these improvements in the laboratory.
20:01 Outro
Resources:
Successful pig to human transplant articles:
- What the successful test of a pig-to-human kidney transplant means | Science News
- Kidney Grown in Pig Successfully Transplanted Into Man (webmd.com)
- A pig kidney has been transplanted into a human successfully for the first time : NPR
- Progress in Xenotransplantation Opens Door to New Supply of Critically Needed Organs | NYU Langone News
- Startup looks to begin pig-to-human organ transplants by 2022 - Big Think