The Food and Drug Administration is devising plans to allow clinical trials testing the transplantation of pig organs into humans, a person familiar with the matter said.
If the agency follows through, the trials could be a key step in an effort to ease the deadly shortage of human donor organs. The planning comes in the wake of a handful of experimental surgeries involving the transplantation of pig organs into a critically ill man and in brain-dead patients.
一位知情人士说,美国食品和药物管理局(Food and Drug Administration)正在制定计划,允许对猪器官移植进行临床试验。
如果该机构按照计划进行,这些试验可能是缓解人体捐献器官严重短缺的关键一步。这一计划是在几次实验性手术之后出台的,这些手术涉及将猪器官移植到一名危重男子和脑死亡患者身上。