Liver | Pig | China
1. Contact address(Person who provides information. This information will be treated confidentially)?
Title: MD
First Name: Beicheng
Last Name: Sun
Address:
Zip:
State: Anhui
Country: China
Institution: First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University
Telephone:
Email:
2. What is the source of your information about human xenotransplantation practices?
Press release, press article
3. What is the therapeutic purpose of this xenotransplantation treatment?
Liver failure
4. Where and when is this human xenotransplantation practice taking place?
Country: China
Timing: 17-05-2024
5. Is this treatment part of a clinical trial?
No
6. How many patients are included in this clinical trial?
1
7. What are the inclusion criteria for patient selection?
i. Duration on the waiting list?
ii. Life-threatening diseases without alternative therapy?
iii. Is a protocol available?
8. What is the animal source of the xenotransplantation product?
Pig
9.Source Animals
Do you have information about source animals?
Yes
Source animals?
- Geographic origin?
- Species? Diannan small-ear pig
- Strain?
- Where were the source animals kept?
- Was it a closed facility?
Genetic modification of source: transgenic source animals or knock-out source animals?
Other precautions:
10-GE pig bred by Wei Hongjiang and colleagues, Yunnan Agricultural University
10. Testing of safety
Do you have information about testing of safety?
No
Can you give a list of microbial agents for which source animals have been tested?
11. What type of cells/tissues/organs was transplanted?
Cells:
Tissues:
Organs: Liver
Others:
12.What type of exposure to xenogeneic cells was involved?
- Solid-organ Xenotransplantation: Yes
- Cellular Xenotransplantation: No
- Tissue Xenotransplantation: No
- Human cells exposed to xenogeneic Feeder cells: No
- Extracorporeal perfusion: No
- Encapsulation: No
- Other bioartificial isolation device:
- Others:
13. Transplant
Do you have information about transplant recipients?
Yes
For how long will they be taken?
For how long will they be store?
How often is the patient seen for follow-up
How long are the patients followed?
14. Have results been presented at a scientific congress?
Unknown
15. Have results been published in a scientific journal?
16. Is this human clinical trial performed with governmental and/or institutional oversight and supervision?
Institutional multidisciplinary boards (academic, clinical ethics, organ transplant ethics, animal ethics)
17. Was the trial approved by a public health authorities(ministry of health, governmental agency…)?
No
if yes, which?
18.Was the trial overseen by a public health authorities(ministry of health, governmental agency…)?
No
if yes, which?
19. Comment
Patient is 71-year-old male with Insufficient liver function after right lobectomy for hepatic cancer