{"id":3495,"date":"2025-10-09T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/chinese-man-survives-for-six-months-after-pig-liver-transplant\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:12:34","slug":"chinese-man-survives-for-six-months-after-pig-liver-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/chinese-man-survives-for-six-months-after-pig-liver-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese man survives for six months after pig liver transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-10-09 12:12:31<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A 71-year-old man in China has become the first living person to survive for months after receiving a pig liver transplant.<BR><br \/>\nThe patient, who has not been named, underwent the world\u2019s first xenotransplanted liver procedure at Anhui Medical University in Hefei in May 2024, after doctors removed a large part of his own liver due to a tumour.<BR><br \/>\nThe operation used a genetically engineered pig liver, designed to reduce the risk of organ rejection. <BR><br \/>\nAccording to the research team, the liver functioned normally for 38 days before it was removed due to complications. <BR><br \/>\nThe man later recovered from surgery but died 171 days after the initial transplant from repeated episodes of upper gastrointestinal bleeding.<BR><br \/>\nLead investigator Dr. Beicheng Sun said the case marked a critical advance in xenotransplantation \u2014 the process of transplanting organs between species.<BR><br \/>\nThe expert explained: &#8220;This case proves that a genetically engineered pig liver can function in a human for an extended period.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;It is a pivotal step forward, demonstrating both the promise and the remaining hurdles, particularly regarding coagulation and immune complications.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nResearchers hope the technique could one day help ease global organ shortages, as pig organs closely resemble human ones in size and structure.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-10-09 12:12:31 A 71-year-old man in China has become the first living person to survive for months after receiving a pig liver transplant. The patient, who has not been named,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3496,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions\/3496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}