Before my bovine lung patch turned me into a chimera (much like all those heart patients with the porcine valves and the mice with inserted human genes) I never thought about xenotransplantation. Now that I am part cow, part generous stranger and part Ger, I have done a lot of thinking about the issues surrounding ethical allo- and xenotransplantation...Technorati Tags: Xenotransplantation, Organ Transplantation
I'm Dr. Joshua Schwimmer, a nephrologist and internal medicine physician in New York City. • Kidney Notes was the first active nephrology blog. (Trivia: Kidney Notes is so old that the National Library of Medicine still uses it as an example of how to formally cite blogs.) • Professionally, you can find me at Kidney.nyc. • Kidney Notes is for educational purposes only, not medical advice. Consult qualified health care professionals. See disclaimer.
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
A Patient's Thoughts on Xenotransplantation
Terie is a liver and kidney transplant recipient. From Terie and Ger's Transplant Adventure: