Dubbed a first-of-its-kind medical surgery, Chinese doctors “successfully” transplanted the liver of a gene-edited pig into a 71-year-old patient with massive right lobe liver cancer on Saturday, according to official media.

The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University released a statement, which Global Times reported, describing the procedure as “one of the most significant breakthroughs in the medical field” and the first liver xenotransplantation surgery ever performed on a living person.

On May 17, the operation was carried out at the First Affiliated Hospital by the team led by Professor Sun Beicheng.

Dubbed a first-of-its-kind medical surgery, Chinese doctors “successfully” transplanted the liver of a gene-edited pig into a 71-year-old patient with massive right lobe liver cancer on Saturday, according to official media.

The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University released a statement, which Global Times reported, describing the procedure as “one of the most significant breakthroughs in the medical field” and the first liver xenotransplantation surgery ever performed on a living person.

The operation was carried out on May 17 by the team led by Professor Sun Beicheng at the First Affiliated Hospital.

Seven days following surgery, the patient has no acute or hyperacute rejection reactions, allowing them to move around freely. The coagulation system is functioning normally, and the liver’s function has been restored to normal.

The patient’s right hepatic tumor was removed during the procedure. It was established that the patient’s needs for liver function could not be satisfied by the remaining portion of the left hepatic lobe.

The patient’s right liver fossa received a liver transplant from a pig that had its genome altered. Bile secretion started right away after the procedure, which went nicely.

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