Grafts: development of a pig tissue filter against rejection in London

Grafts: development of a pig tissue filter against rejection in London

Animals have always been directly involved in the progress of medicine. In South London, surgeons at Dulwich Hospital say they will be able to graft animal organs onto humans in two or three years. A hope for the thousands of patients who die every year due to lack of donors. Professor Michael BEWICK explains (vo trad off) that there are more and more requests for organs. "There is pressure in this direction, until an alternative solution is found," he stresses. Professor Bewick’s team believes that this solution has been found through the development of an anti-rejection pig fabric filter. Professor Jean François BACH (Necker Hospital) explains how pig fabric filters could prevent rejection.

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File : Animal organ transplantation

Publication date : 1 August 1988