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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Xenotransplantation. 2015 Apr 3;22(3):211–220. doi: 10.1111/xen.12167

Table 1.

Details of Group A and B experiments

Baboon # Pig Immuno-
suppressive
Regimen*
Graft/Recipient
Survival (days)
Complications Cause of
Termination
(graft score)
Group A (all received GTKO.CD46.CD55 pig hearts)
B 19110 1 33 Hemorrhage (a)
Left hemiplegia (b)
Euthanized (1/3)
B 19010 1 18 Massive ascites (c) Euthanized (1/3)

B 19510 2 15 Ascites
Septic peritonitis (d)
Died (2/3)
B 18910 2 23 Septicemia/ascites (e) Euthanized (1.5/3)

Group B (all received GTKO.CD46.TBM pig hearts)**
B 5512 TBM (8%) (pig TBM promoter) 3 99 CMV pneumonia Euthanized (2.5/3)
B 5712 TBM (26%) (pig TBM promoter) 3 130 None Graft failure (0.5/3)

B 16311 TBM (96%) (ICAM-2 promoter/enhancer) 1 52 Pneumonia (f) Euthanized (3/3)
*

For details, see Table 2.

**

Percentage refers to percentage of donor pig AECs expressing human TBM.

(a)

Related to high heparin dosage; treated successfully.

(b)

Intra-arterial catheter thromboembolic complication.

(c)

Ascites drained on two occasions (day 14 = 500 mL and day 16 = 750 mL); reaccumulated rapidly; ascitic fluid sterile.

(d)

Blood - enterococcus faecalis; ascites drained at necropsy (day 15 = 600 mL); ascitic fluid also grew enterococcus faecalis.

(e)

Blood - enterococcus faecalis; ascites drained on day 14 (<50 mL) and at necropsy (day 23 = 700 mL); ascitic fluid sterile.

(f)

This baboon did not receive anti-CD20mAb. Pneumonia related to Enterococcus faecalis and Escherischia coli.