The ultimate gift: Organ transplantation
In this episode of Lab Medicine Rounds, as we head into the holiday season, Justin Kreuter, M.D., and Andrés Jaramillo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and director of the Histocompatibility Laboratory at May
Lab Medicine Rounds · Mayo Clinic Laboratories
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Show Notes
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