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AND 28 00:01:22,749 --> 00:01:23,450 ALICE MARIE HALES DISTINGUISHED 29 00:01:23,516 --> 00:01:24,083 PROFESSOR IN TRANSPLANTATION AT 30 00:01:24,150 --> 00:01:24,818 THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND 31 00:01:24,884 --> 00:01:27,487 SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. 32 00:01:27,554 --> 00:01:30,790 AS A SURGEON, HE'S UNPARALLELED. 33 00:01:30,857 --> 00:01:32,425 1200 HEART TRANSPLANTS HAVE BEEN 34 00:01:32,492 --> 00:01:34,394 DONE BY HIM. 35 00:01:34,461 --> 00:01:37,564 OVER 600 LUNG TRA TRANSPLANTS HE 36 00:01:37,630 --> 00:01:38,998 BEEN DONE BY HIM. 37 00:01:39,065 --> 00:01:40,633 HE'S THE SECOND PERSON IN THE 38 00:01:40,700 --> 00:01:43,236 WORLD TO DO AN EN BLOC 39 00:01:43,303 --> 00:01:43,803 HEART-LUNG AT THE SAME TIME. 40 00:01:43,870 --> 00:01:45,338 IN ADDITION, HE'S BEEN AN 41 00:01:45,405 --> 00:01:45,605 INNOVATOR. 42 00:01:45,672 --> 00:01:47,740 HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE 43 00:01:47,807 --> 00:01:50,810 TO USE CYCLOSPORIN AS A 44 00:01:50,877 --> 00:01:52,312 IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE MEDICATION, 45 00:01:52,378 --> 00:01:53,446 WHICH HELPED US REALLY ADVANCE 46 00:01:53,513 --> 00:01:55,148 THE FIELD OF LUNG TRANSPLANT 47 00:01:55,215 --> 00:01:55,949 SURGERY. 48 00:01:56,015 --> 00:01:58,785 FROM AN ENGINEERING STANDPOINT, 49 00:01:58,852 --> 00:02:04,257 HE IS THE INVENTOR OF THE HEART 50 00:02:04,324 --> 00:02:05,124 MATE2 VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE. 51 00:02:05,191 --> 00:02:06,392 HE'S ALSO ONE OF THE FIRST 52 00:02:06,459 --> 00:02:07,293 PEOPLE TO SEND A PERSON HOME 53 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,596 WITH A VENTRICULAR ASSIST 54 00:02:09,662 --> 00:02:09,829 DEVICE. 55 00:02:09,896 --> 00:02:10,930 AT EVERY STEP OF THE WAY, HE'S 56 00:02:10,997 --> 00:02:12,131 BEEN AN INNOVATOR. 57 00:02:12,198 --> 00:02:14,534 HE GRADUATED FROM SHADY SIDE 58 00:02:14,601 --> 00:02:16,369 ACADEMY IN PITTSBURGH IN 1966, 59 00:02:16,436 --> 00:02:20,006 WENT ON TO BUCKNELL AND THEN TO 60 00:02:20,073 --> 00:02:20,940 THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY 61 00:02:21,007 --> 00:02:22,075 HOSPITAL FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL. 62 00:02:22,141 --> 00:02:23,943 THERE HE WAS INSPIRED TO BECOME 63 00:02:24,010 --> 00:02:25,945 A CARDIAC SURGEON. 64 00:02:26,012 --> 00:02:27,914 TODAY, HE TOLD THE STORY THAT HE 65 00:02:27,981 --> 00:02:31,150 USED TO GO TO DOC'S, HAVE A 66 00:02:31,217 --> 00:02:31,718 SANDWICH AND A BEER. 67 00:02:31,784 --> 00:02:33,887 SO DID I WHEN I WAS A RESIDENT. 68 00:02:33,953 --> 00:02:36,289 IT'S STILL THERE. 69 00:02:36,356 --> 00:02:40,660 FROM THERE, HE ENDED UP GOING TO 70 00:02:40,727 --> 00:02:41,327 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL 71 00:02:41,394 --> 00:02:43,496 CENTER, WHERE HE COMPLETED HIS 72 00:02:43,563 --> 00:02:46,132 GENERAL SURGICAL RESIDENCY AND 73 00:02:46,199 --> 00:02:49,302 BECAME FACULTY IN 1981. 74 00:02:49,369 --> 00:02:51,204 BY 1988, HE WAS A FULLY TENURED 75 00:02:51,271 --> 00:02:52,305 PROFESSOR AND TWO YEARS LATER, 76 00:02:52,372 --> 00:02:55,675 HE WAS THE HENRY T.BONSON 77 00:02:55,742 --> 00:03:04,450 PROFESSOR OF CARDIAC SURGERY. 78 00:03:04,517 --> 00:03:07,153 HANK BONSON IS A LEGEND. 79 00:03:07,220 --> 00:03:09,222 DR. GRIFFITH FILLED THOSE SHOES 80 00:03:09,289 --> 00:03:09,856 ADMIRABLY. 81 00:03:09,923 --> 00:03:15,461 FROM THERE H THERE, HE'S FUNDEDE 82 00:03:15,528 --> 00:03:16,863 NHLBI FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS. 83 00:03:16,930 --> 00:03:18,531 CURRENTLY HAS A BUDGET IN THE 84 00:03:18,598 --> 00:03:20,800 BALLPARK OF 26 TO $40 MILLION, 85 00:03:20,867 --> 00:03:23,436 DEPENDING ON WHO YOU READ. 86 00:03:23,503 --> 00:03:27,373 AND IS THE FIRST PERSON EVER TO 87 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:30,743 PUT A HEART -- THE HEART OF A 88 00:03:30,810 --> 00:03:35,782 PIG INTO A HUMAN FOR A 89 00:03:35,848 --> 00:03:36,149 XENOTRANSPLANT. 90 00:03:36,215 --> 00:03:40,286 IN JANUARY OF 2022, WHEN I SAW 91 00:03:40,353 --> 00:03:42,589 THE NEWS, BBC, CNN, IT WAS THE 92 00:03:42,655 --> 00:03:44,424 FIRST THING ON EVERY SINGLE ONE 93 00:03:44,490 --> 00:03:45,425 OF THE NEWS FEEDS THAT I LOOK 94 00:03:45,491 --> 00:03:46,192 AT. 95 00:03:46,259 --> 00:03:49,128 I SENT MY FRIEND A TEXT, 96 00:03:49,195 --> 00:03:51,931 CONGRATULATIONS, I KNEW I WAS 97 00:03:51,998 --> 00:03:53,833 ONE OF A MILLION PEOPLE PROBABLY 98 00:03:53,900 --> 00:03:55,902 BLOWING UP HIS PHONE, BUT I GOT 99 00:03:55,969 --> 00:03:57,236 A NICE TEXT BACK. 100 00:03:57,303 --> 00:03:59,405 AND THAT MEANS A LOT TO ME. 101 00:03:59,472 --> 00:04:02,575 IT'S NOT OFTEN YOU GET TO 102 00:04:02,642 --> 00:04:03,910 INTRODUCE SOMEONE WHO IS 103 00:04:03,977 --> 00:04:05,545 EFFECTIVELY THE EQUIVALENT OF 104 00:04:05,612 --> 00:04:08,381 NEIL ARMSTRONG IN MY FIELD. 105 00:04:08,448 --> 00:04:10,917 WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ADO, 106 00:04:10,984 --> 00:04:11,751 DR. BART GRIFFITH. 107 00:04:11,818 --> 00:04:18,891 [APPLAUSE] 108 00:04:18,958 --> 00:04:19,759 >> THAT WAS RIDICULOUS. 109 00:04:19,826 --> 00:04:21,527 THANK YOU. 110 00:04:21,594 --> 00:04:22,829 I'M A MAN LOOKING FOR A JOB, I 111 00:04:22,895 --> 00:04:24,030 GUESS. 112 00:04:24,097 --> 00:04:24,897 IT'S DELIGHTFUL TO BE HERE. 113 00:04:24,964 --> 00:04:27,200 I HAD A GREAT MORNING. 114 00:04:27,266 --> 00:04:28,568 AFTER I FOUND THE RIGHT ENTRANCE 115 00:04:28,635 --> 00:04:32,005 TO COME IN. 116 00:04:32,071 --> 00:04:33,973 AND IT WAS DELIGHTFUL TO SEE THE 117 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,476 STUDENTS, TO MEET WITH THE 118 00:04:36,542 --> 00:04:39,879 FACULTY, AND A TEAM FROM THE 119 00:04:39,946 --> 00:04:42,515 NHLBI AND YOUR CLINICAL DIRECTOR 120 00:04:42,582 --> 00:04:43,683 MOST IMMEDIATELY. 121 00:04:43,750 --> 00:04:44,584 THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF 122 00:04:44,651 --> 00:04:47,020 BEING HERE TODAY. 123 00:04:47,086 --> 00:04:50,289 I HAVE A JOB TODAY AND IT'S TO 124 00:04:50,356 --> 00:04:54,093 BASICALLY TRY TO HAVE YOU SEE 125 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:54,727 XENOTRANSPLANTATION THROUGH MY 126 00:04:54,794 --> 00:04:55,094 EYES. 127 00:04:55,161 --> 00:04:56,262 AND THAT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT, 128 00:04:56,329 --> 00:04:58,798 OF COURSE, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, MY 129 00:04:58,865 --> 00:05:00,333 EYES ARE MY EYES AND NOT YOURS, 130 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,235 BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO ME THAT AT 131 00:05:02,301 --> 00:05:05,571 THE END OF THE DAY, NOT THAT YOU 132 00:05:05,638 --> 00:05:07,240 NECESSARILY UNDERSTAND THE 133 00:05:07,306 --> 00:05:08,641 ACCESSORY PATHWAY AND WHY WE 134 00:05:08,708 --> 00:05:12,812 HAVE TO BLOCK IT AND WHAT 135 00:05:12,879 --> 00:05:13,479 ANTIBODY-MEDIATED REJECTION IS, 136 00:05:13,546 --> 00:05:14,914 BUT I THINK I WANT PARTICULARLY 137 00:05:14,981 --> 00:05:16,616 BECAUSE I SEE STUDENTS, I WANT 138 00:05:16,683 --> 00:05:19,919 YOU TO SEE THE RELATIVE BENEFIT 139 00:05:19,986 --> 00:05:24,490 OF RESEARCH AND THANK YOU MAPT. 140 00:05:24,557 --> 00:05:25,091 HUMANITY. 141 00:05:25,158 --> 00:05:26,492 AND WHILE IT IS TRUE, WE ARE NOT 142 00:05:26,559 --> 00:05:29,095 GOING TO SAVE LEGIONS OF 143 00:05:29,162 --> 00:05:32,732 PATIENTS WITH SEEN 144 00:05:32,799 --> 00:05:33,599 XENOTRANSPLANTATION, THE 145 00:05:33,666 --> 00:05:34,667 WALK-THROUGH THE LABORATORY INTO 146 00:05:34,734 --> 00:05:36,202 THE CLINIC HAS BEEN ONE LACED 147 00:05:36,269 --> 00:05:39,605 WITH HUMAN EMOTION AND WITH, I 148 00:05:39,672 --> 00:05:41,474 THINK, A GREAT SENSE OF 149 00:05:41,541 --> 00:05:43,976 GRATITUDE, EVEN THOUGH TWO 150 00:05:44,043 --> 00:05:46,045 PATIENTS RECEIVED HUMAN ORGANS 151 00:05:46,112 --> 00:05:48,047 AND THOSE TWO PATIENTS IN TOTAL 152 00:05:48,114 --> 00:05:49,782 LIVED FOR 100 DAYS ONLY. 153 00:05:49,849 --> 00:05:54,487 WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED. 154 00:05:54,554 --> 00:05:55,555 I WILL TELL YOU A LITTLE ABOUT 155 00:05:55,621 --> 00:05:56,789 THAT STORY AND HOPE YOU ENJOY 156 00:05:56,856 --> 00:05:57,757 IT. 157 00:05:57,824 --> 00:06:02,895 THIS IS A ROZ CHASTE CARTOON 158 00:06:02,962 --> 00:06:04,430 THAT I'M WEIRD ENOUGH TO THINK 159 00:06:04,497 --> 00:06:05,198 IS FUNNY. 160 00:06:05,264 --> 00:06:06,966 "THE END OF NEAR, HAVE A CONE." 161 00:06:07,033 --> 00:06:08,701 I KIND OF WANTED TO USE THAT IN 162 00:06:08,768 --> 00:06:10,336 WAY TO DESCRIBE SOMETHING ELSE. 163 00:06:10,403 --> 00:06:12,438 SO THE END IS NEAR, HAVE A PIG 164 00:06:12,505 --> 00:06:14,173 HEART. 165 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:14,507 [LAUGHTER] 166 00:06:14,574 --> 00:06:17,343 AND I DON'T MEAN THIS TO MAKE 167 00:06:17,410 --> 00:06:19,412 FUN OF PATIENTS IN ANY WAY. 168 00:06:19,479 --> 00:06:23,416 BUT MY PARTNER, DR. MOADEEN WHO 169 00:06:23,483 --> 00:06:24,984 SPENT TIME HERE AND REALLY 170 00:06:25,051 --> 00:06:26,085 SHARPENED HIS SWORD SO THAT WE 171 00:06:26,152 --> 00:06:27,520 COULD BE THINKING ABOUT THE 172 00:06:27,587 --> 00:06:30,690 ACTUAL HUMAN TRANSLATION OF THIS 173 00:06:30,757 --> 00:06:33,860 EXPERIMENT STARTED AT THE NHLBI, 174 00:06:33,926 --> 00:06:38,331 AND MANY GOOD YEARS WERE HERE, 175 00:06:38,397 --> 00:06:39,766 REALLY REFINING THE IMMUNE 176 00:06:39,832 --> 00:06:41,968 SUPPRESSIVE PROTOCOL. 177 00:06:42,034 --> 00:06:43,503 BUT I SHOW THIS BECAUSE WHAT YOU 178 00:06:43,569 --> 00:06:48,474 WILL SEE IS THAT TWO PATIENTS 179 00:06:48,541 --> 00:06:50,276 WILLINGLY UNDERWENT AN 180 00:06:50,343 --> 00:06:51,110 EXPERIMENTAL TRANSPLANT BECAUSE 181 00:06:51,177 --> 00:06:52,779 THEIR END WAS NEAR. 182 00:06:52,845 --> 00:06:53,579 IT WAS PROXIMATE. 183 00:06:53,646 --> 00:07:00,119 IT WAS WITHIN DAYS. 184 00:07:00,186 --> 00:07:01,220 BOTH OF THEM IN THE END 185 00:07:01,287 --> 00:07:02,522 PREFERRED AN ALTERNATIVE THERAPY 186 00:07:02,588 --> 00:07:04,490 WHICH WAS NOT AVAILABLE TO THEM. 187 00:07:04,557 --> 00:07:05,792 NOT BEING AVAILABLE TO THEM, AS 188 00:07:05,858 --> 00:07:06,993 OPPOSED TO GOING OUT LIKE A 189 00:07:07,059 --> 00:07:08,761 LAMB, THEY WANTED TO GO OUT A 190 00:07:08,828 --> 00:07:11,164 LITTLE BIT AS AN ASTRONAUT, AND 191 00:07:11,230 --> 00:07:12,365 THEY WANTED TO TEACH US. 192 00:07:12,431 --> 00:07:14,467 THEY WANTED TO TEACH YOU AND 193 00:07:14,534 --> 00:07:18,037 CERTAINLY ME, A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 194 00:07:18,104 --> 00:07:20,339 THIS POTENTIAL WONDERFUL 195 00:07:20,406 --> 00:07:23,309 TREATMENT THAT IS JUST KIND OF 196 00:07:23,376 --> 00:07:24,277 WAITING FOR HUMAN 197 00:07:24,343 --> 00:07:24,644 EXPERIMENTATION. 198 00:07:24,710 --> 00:07:25,711 SO WITH THAT, WE'LL TRY TO GET 199 00:07:25,778 --> 00:07:27,880 THROUGH IT. 200 00:07:27,947 --> 00:07:32,051 NOW, THIS THERAPY, IT'S KIND OF 201 00:07:32,118 --> 00:07:35,121 CUT OFF THERE, IT SAYS CHINESE 202 00:07:35,188 --> 00:07:37,523 SCIENTISTS -- TRANSPLANT OF 203 00:07:37,590 --> 00:07:39,258 HUMAN PIG LIVER. 204 00:07:39,325 --> 00:07:40,626 THIS JUST CAME OUT LAST WEEK, I 205 00:07:40,693 --> 00:07:41,794 DON'T KNOW WHETHER YOU SAW IT. 206 00:07:41,861 --> 00:07:44,130 BUT THEY DID GENETICALLY 207 00:07:44,197 --> 00:07:46,933 ENGINEERED LIVER TRANSPLANT IN A 208 00:07:46,999 --> 00:07:48,234 DECEASED PATIENT IN CHINA. 209 00:07:48,301 --> 00:07:50,536 AT THE AIR FORCE HOSPITAL IN 210 00:07:50,603 --> 00:07:52,605 CHINA. 211 00:07:52,672 --> 00:07:55,975 AND SO THIS IS HAPPENING, RIGHT? 212 00:07:56,042 --> 00:07:58,211 WE EXPECT OUR COLLEAGUES IN 213 00:07:58,277 --> 00:08:00,479 MUNICH TO GET CLOSE TO THIS 214 00:08:00,546 --> 00:08:02,081 WITHIN THE YEAR. 215 00:08:02,148 --> 00:08:04,750 I THINK WE'LL SEE OTHER CENTERS 216 00:08:04,817 --> 00:08:06,052 COME ON BOARD. 217 00:08:06,118 --> 00:08:07,920 I THINK THE TREATMENT IS GOING 218 00:08:07,987 --> 00:08:08,888 TO BE COMPELLING. 219 00:08:08,955 --> 00:08:10,990 I THINK OUR EARLY RESULTS WOULD 220 00:08:11,057 --> 00:08:14,594 SUGGEST THERE IS AT LEAST THE 221 00:08:14,660 --> 00:08:15,695 OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN AND TO DO 222 00:08:15,761 --> 00:08:16,996 BETTER AND TO PROVIDE OPTIONS 223 00:08:17,063 --> 00:08:20,066 GOING DOWN. 224 00:08:20,132 --> 00:08:20,833 THE ROAD. 225 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:24,103 SO OUR DONOR IS A PIG HEART. 226 00:08:24,170 --> 00:08:25,671 THAT'S THE DONOR ORGAN. 227 00:08:25,738 --> 00:08:27,306 SO WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE PIG? 228 00:08:27,373 --> 00:08:29,242 WELL, THEY GROW FAST. 229 00:08:29,308 --> 00:08:32,211 WE EAT THEM. 230 00:08:32,278 --> 00:08:33,512 AND THEY CAN BE GENETICALLY 231 00:08:33,579 --> 00:08:35,047 ALTERED. 232 00:08:35,114 --> 00:08:37,783 AND SO IF YOU WERE TO DESIGN A 233 00:08:37,850 --> 00:08:40,086 PIG HEART FOR A HUMAN, YOU WOULD 234 00:08:40,152 --> 00:08:41,621 DO SOME DELETIONS, YOU WOULD ADD 235 00:08:41,687 --> 00:08:43,022 SOME GENES AND WE'RE JUST GOING 236 00:08:43,089 --> 00:08:44,790 TO BRIEFLY TALK ABOUT THAT, BUT 237 00:08:44,857 --> 00:08:46,759 IT'S THE PERFECT SIZE FOR A 238 00:08:46,826 --> 00:08:49,161 HUMAN, GENERALLY SPEAKING, AND 239 00:08:49,228 --> 00:08:50,796 THERE ARE DIFFERENCES IN HOW IT 240 00:08:50,863 --> 00:08:53,399 CONTRACTS, BUT IT CONTRACT WELL 241 00:08:53,466 --> 00:08:55,067 ENOUGH TO MASQUERADE 242 00:08:55,134 --> 00:08:56,469 BEAUTIFULLY, AS I WILL SHOW YOU, 243 00:08:56,535 --> 00:08:57,036 FOR THE HUMAN HEART. 244 00:08:57,103 --> 00:08:58,671 SO THIS IS A WILD TYPE PIG 245 00:08:58,738 --> 00:09:00,539 HEART, AND IT'S JUST GONE INTO 246 00:09:00,606 --> 00:09:02,174 THE ABDOMEN OF A BABOON. 247 00:09:02,241 --> 00:09:03,476 INCIDENTALLY, IN ONE OF THESE 248 00:09:03,542 --> 00:09:07,113 BUILDINGS HERE. 249 00:09:07,179 --> 00:09:09,081 THAT HEART, IF UNALTERED AND 250 00:09:09,148 --> 00:09:10,383 REMAINS, YOU KNOW, NOT 251 00:09:10,449 --> 00:09:13,119 GENETICALLY ALTERED, WILL TURN 252 00:09:13,185 --> 00:09:15,755 TO THIS BLACK HEART, AND IT'S 253 00:09:15,821 --> 00:09:19,125 BLACK BECAUSE ITS BLOOD VESSELS 254 00:09:19,191 --> 00:09:20,660 HAVE CLOTTED, ALMOST INSTANTLY. 255 00:09:20,726 --> 00:09:21,961 THIS IS WITHIN 15 MINUTES OF 256 00:09:22,028 --> 00:09:24,497 RELEASING THE CLAMP AND 257 00:09:24,563 --> 00:09:25,598 REPERFUSING THAT ORGAN. 258 00:09:25,665 --> 00:09:28,000 AND SO WHAT IS HAPPENING IS, 259 00:09:28,067 --> 00:09:28,734 HYPERACUTE REJECTION. 260 00:09:28,801 --> 00:09:32,705 THE BODY SENSES SOME SUGARS ON 261 00:09:32,772 --> 00:09:35,308 THAT ENDOTHELIUM THAT SHOULDN'T 262 00:09:35,374 --> 00:09:36,943 BE THERE, AND SO IT ATTACKS IT 263 00:09:37,009 --> 00:09:37,276 IMMEDIATELY. 264 00:09:37,343 --> 00:09:39,278 THESE ARE PREFORMED ANTIBODIES, 265 00:09:39,345 --> 00:09:42,648 AND THIS IS LIKE YOUR BEE STING 266 00:09:42,715 --> 00:09:44,383 ALLERGY. 267 00:09:44,450 --> 00:09:47,019 THIS IS ALL ARMS ON DECK 268 00:09:47,086 --> 00:09:48,888 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE AN 269 00:09:48,955 --> 00:09:49,322 INVADER. 270 00:09:49,388 --> 00:09:50,823 AND THIS WAS THE BIG PROBLEM, 271 00:09:50,890 --> 00:09:51,090 RIGHT? 272 00:09:51,157 --> 00:09:53,159 AND SO IT WAS RECOGNIZED THAT 273 00:09:53,225 --> 00:09:54,660 SOME CHANGES COULD BE MADE, 274 00:09:54,727 --> 00:09:59,265 RIGHT, TO THE PIG HEART. 275 00:09:59,332 --> 00:10:00,800 THE PIG HEART CHANGES THAT WE 276 00:10:00,866 --> 00:10:03,536 USED ARE SHOWN HERE. 277 00:10:03,602 --> 00:10:08,774 THIS PIG HERE IS CLONED, AND IT 278 00:10:08,841 --> 00:10:10,576 HAS 10 CHANGES, AS I MENTIONED. 279 00:10:10,643 --> 00:10:16,682 FOUR OF THEM WERE ADDITIONS OF 280 00:10:16,749 --> 00:10:19,485 COAGULATION AND COMPLEMENT, AND 281 00:10:19,552 --> 00:10:21,253 THEN ONE WAS AN INFLAMMATORY 282 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:21,587 REGULATOR. 283 00:10:21,654 --> 00:10:24,090 AND I HAD FUN TALKING TO MY 284 00:10:24,156 --> 00:10:27,693 IMMEDIATE HOST ABOUT MONOCYTE 285 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:29,128 INHIBITION FACTOR, WHICH HE'S 286 00:10:29,195 --> 00:10:30,429 VERY INTERESTED IN, IN LUNG 287 00:10:30,496 --> 00:10:32,398 CANCER. 288 00:10:32,465 --> 00:10:35,167 WELL, WE USE A MONOCYTE 289 00:10:35,234 --> 00:10:38,104 INHIBITION FACTOR IN THE FACE OF 290 00:10:38,170 --> 00:10:40,306 CD47 TO HELP TAMP DOWN 291 00:10:40,373 --> 00:10:41,707 INFLAMMATION IN THIS PIG. 292 00:10:41,774 --> 00:10:44,110 BUT IMPORTANTLY, WE ADD 293 00:10:44,176 --> 00:10:45,544 COMPLEMENT FEATURES, RIGHT? 294 00:10:45,611 --> 00:10:48,147 AND WE ADD COAGULATION 295 00:10:48,214 --> 00:10:49,682 REGULATORS SO THAT IF A BEE 296 00:10:49,749 --> 00:10:52,084 STING GETS STARTED, IT DOESN'T 297 00:10:52,151 --> 00:10:53,719 CLOT THE BLOOD VESSELS. 298 00:10:53,786 --> 00:10:56,355 WE ALSO KNOCK OUT FOUR GENES. 299 00:10:56,422 --> 00:10:58,124 THREE OF THEM ARE THE SUGAR 300 00:10:58,190 --> 00:10:59,759 GENES THAT TURN ON THOSE BEE 301 00:10:59,825 --> 00:11:00,860 STINGS, IF YOU WISH, THAT START 302 00:11:00,926 --> 00:11:02,595 THAT WHOLE PROCESS OF TURNING 303 00:11:02,661 --> 00:11:05,998 THAT HEART INTO A USELESS 304 00:11:06,065 --> 00:11:08,634 COAGULATED BLACK ORGAN. 305 00:11:08,701 --> 00:11:12,204 THOSE ARE THE ALPHA GAU TYPE 306 00:11:12,271 --> 00:11:14,407 SUGARS. 307 00:11:14,473 --> 00:11:15,941 THEY WOULD BE A LITTLE BIT LIKE 308 00:11:16,008 --> 00:11:18,110 THE HUMAN BLOOD TYPE, RIGHT? 309 00:11:18,177 --> 00:11:18,878 A, B AND O, RIGHT? 310 00:11:18,944 --> 00:11:20,212 THOSE ARE SUGARS, RIGHT? 311 00:11:20,279 --> 00:11:22,381 AND THESE ARE THE SUGARS THAT 312 00:11:22,448 --> 00:11:25,584 WERE RECOGNIZED IMMEDIATELY. 313 00:11:25,651 --> 00:11:28,287 WE ALSO KNOCK OUT A GROWTH 314 00:11:28,354 --> 00:11:29,922 RECEPTOR, AND THE GROWTH 315 00:11:29,989 --> 00:11:31,457 RECEPTOR IS DEEMED TO BE 316 00:11:31,524 --> 00:11:32,691 NECESSARY TO BE KNOCKED OUT, I'M 317 00:11:32,758 --> 00:11:34,260 NOT SURE IT GOING TO PERSIST TO 318 00:11:34,326 --> 00:11:36,695 BE KNOCKED OUT BECAUSE I THINK 319 00:11:36,762 --> 00:11:41,734 IT WAS OVERHIGH PRESSUH OVERHYPE 320 00:11:41,801 --> 00:11:43,402 PIGS WILL GROW TO 400 POUNDS AND 321 00:11:43,469 --> 00:11:45,371 THEIR ORGANS TEND TO OVERGROW 322 00:11:45,438 --> 00:11:47,006 HUMAN SIZE SO THERE WAS CONCERN 323 00:11:47,073 --> 00:11:48,874 THE KIDNEYS WOULD GROW TOO BIG, 324 00:11:48,941 --> 00:11:50,176 THE HEART IS GOING TO GROW TOO 325 00:11:50,242 --> 00:11:50,843 BIG. 326 00:11:50,910 --> 00:11:52,144 NOT SURE THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. 327 00:11:52,211 --> 00:11:53,779 AND THERE'S SOME CONSEQUENCES OF 328 00:11:53,846 --> 00:11:55,414 USING THE GROWTH RECEPTOR 329 00:11:55,481 --> 00:11:57,049 KNOCKOUT BUT THESE ARE BASICALLY 330 00:11:57,116 --> 00:11:58,384 LIKE DWARFED PIGS. 331 00:11:58,451 --> 00:12:00,219 THEY MAX OUT AT ABOUT 200 POUNDS 332 00:12:00,286 --> 00:12:09,228 AS OPPOSED TO 400. 333 00:12:09,295 --> 00:12:10,863 WHEN WE LOOK AN BIOPSY TISSUE, 334 00:12:10,930 --> 00:12:11,831 WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO STAIN FOR 335 00:12:11,897 --> 00:12:12,798 THE PRESENCE OF THOSE GENES, 336 00:12:12,865 --> 00:12:14,133 THAT THOSE GENES ARE WORKING, 337 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:15,034 RIGHT, THAT IN FACT THOSE GENES 338 00:12:15,101 --> 00:12:16,735 WE KNOCKED IN THERE ARE WORKING, 339 00:12:16,802 --> 00:12:17,103 RIGHT? 340 00:12:17,169 --> 00:12:19,605 SO THAT'S WHAT THIS PANEL ON A 341 00:12:19,672 --> 00:12:20,372 SHOWS. 342 00:12:20,439 --> 00:12:23,542 THAT'S AN IMMUNE HISTOCHEMISTRY 343 00:12:23,609 --> 00:12:26,512 STUDY OF THE FIRST HEART BIOPSY 344 00:12:26,579 --> 00:12:27,680 IN OUR FIRST PATIENT. 345 00:12:27,746 --> 00:12:29,615 ALL THE WAY TO THE LEFT, THAT'S 346 00:12:29,682 --> 00:12:30,216 DAY 30. 347 00:12:30,282 --> 00:12:32,284 THEN THERE'S NEGATIVE CONTROL, 348 00:12:32,351 --> 00:12:33,586 WHICH SHOULDN'T LIGHT UP BECAUSE 349 00:12:33,652 --> 00:12:35,454 THAT'S A WILD TYPE PIG HEART. 350 00:12:35,521 --> 00:12:38,424 AND THEN YOU'VE GOT POSTMORTEM 351 00:12:38,491 --> 00:12:41,026 TISSUE ON THE ABSOLUTE RIGHT. 352 00:12:41,093 --> 00:12:42,661 THERE IS SOME DIFFERENCE. 353 00:12:42,728 --> 00:12:49,468 IF YOU LOOK AT OUR EPCR AND OUR 354 00:12:49,535 --> 00:12:52,438 TBM, THOSE ARE REGULATORS OF 355 00:12:52,505 --> 00:12:53,372 COAGULATION. 356 00:12:53,439 --> 00:12:56,442 AND THOSE ARE ON A SEPARATE 357 00:12:56,509 --> 00:12:57,676 PROMOTER, AN 358 00:12:57,743 --> 00:12:58,711 ENDOTHELIAL-SPECIFIC PROMOTER, 359 00:12:58,777 --> 00:13:01,147 WHICH TURNS ON ONLY WHEN THE 360 00:13:01,213 --> 00:13:03,983 ENDOTHELIUM IS BEING STRESSED. 361 00:13:04,049 --> 00:13:05,417 THE NEGATIVE CONTROL DOESN'T 362 00:13:05,484 --> 00:13:07,286 SHOW IT AND THE HEART BIOPSY AT 363 00:13:07,353 --> 00:13:08,587 DAY 30 IN OUR FIRST PATIENT 364 00:13:08,654 --> 00:13:10,789 DIDN'T SHOW IT BECAUSE THAT 365 00:13:10,856 --> 00:13:11,657 HEART WASN'T STRESSED. 366 00:13:11,724 --> 00:13:12,858 LOOK AT THE POSTMORTEM. 367 00:13:12,925 --> 00:13:14,260 AT POSTMORTEM, YOU SEE IT'S 368 00:13:14,326 --> 00:13:15,060 TURNED ON. 369 00:13:15,127 --> 00:13:18,998 SO EVEN THE REGULATED TRANS GENE 370 00:13:19,064 --> 00:13:20,366 SEEMS TO BE WORKING WELL FOR US, 371 00:13:20,432 --> 00:13:22,501 AND THAT'S WHY I SHOW TO YOU. 372 00:13:22,568 --> 00:13:25,871 AND THAT IS ALSO EXEMPLIFIED IN 373 00:13:25,938 --> 00:13:27,740 THE MIDDLE COLUMN, WHERE YOU SEE 374 00:13:27,806 --> 00:13:32,211 TBM AND EPCR ELEVATED IN THE 375 00:13:32,278 --> 00:13:37,583 PRESENCE OF STRESS AT THE BIOPSY 376 00:13:37,650 --> 00:13:42,488 WHEN IT WAS SO. 377 00:13:42,555 --> 00:13:43,556 SO I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY 378 00:13:43,622 --> 00:13:44,123 ENOUGH FOR THAT SLIDE. 379 00:13:44,190 --> 00:13:45,257 THIS IS THE WORK THAT WAS DONE 380 00:13:45,324 --> 00:13:45,558 HERE. 381 00:13:45,624 --> 00:13:49,061 AND THIS IS A MODEL WHICH IS 382 00:13:49,128 --> 00:13:51,463 MORE COMMONLY DONE IN RODENTS, 383 00:13:51,530 --> 00:13:54,600 WHERE A HEART CAN BE PLACED IN 384 00:13:54,667 --> 00:13:56,635 THE ABDOMEN AND THE HEART IS 385 00:13:56,702 --> 00:13:57,136 REPERFUSED. 386 00:13:57,203 --> 00:13:58,370 WHEN STUDIES ARE DONE OF THIS 387 00:13:58,437 --> 00:13:59,471 NATURE, IT'S NOT TO SEE WHETHER 388 00:13:59,538 --> 00:14:00,873 THE HEART CAN FUNCTION WELL. 389 00:14:00,940 --> 00:14:02,608 IT'S TO SEE WHETHER THE BODY 390 00:14:02,675 --> 00:14:03,509 REJECTS IT. 391 00:14:03,576 --> 00:14:05,377 SO IT'S A GOOD WAY TO TEST 392 00:14:05,444 --> 00:14:07,546 IMMUNE SUPPRESSIVE PROTOCOLS. 393 00:14:07,613 --> 00:14:09,615 IT'S ALSO A LOT EASIER THAN 394 00:14:09,682 --> 00:14:11,383 DOING A TRUE HEART TRANSPLANT, 395 00:14:11,450 --> 00:14:13,152 BECAUSE THEN YOU DON'T HAVE THE 396 00:14:13,219 --> 00:14:15,654 CONCERN OF TAKING CARE OF AN 397 00:14:15,721 --> 00:14:18,257 ANIMAL NOW THAT'S HAD AN ACUTE 398 00:14:18,324 --> 00:14:18,824 HEART TRANSPLANT. 399 00:14:18,891 --> 00:14:21,660 SO THIS IS HOW THIS PIG HEART IS 400 00:14:21,727 --> 00:14:23,629 PLACED INTO THIS BABOON'S 401 00:14:23,696 --> 00:14:24,830 STOMACH, AND I'LL PULL THAT 402 00:14:24,897 --> 00:14:26,799 AWAY, AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE 403 00:14:26,865 --> 00:14:27,299 IT PULSATING IN THERE. 404 00:14:27,366 --> 00:14:29,101 I THINK IT'S KIND OF COOL, THAT 405 00:14:29,168 --> 00:14:29,768 LITTLE MOVIE. 406 00:14:29,835 --> 00:14:31,303 AND THANK YOU, NIH, FOR HELPING 407 00:14:31,370 --> 00:14:33,706 TO PRODUCE THIS VIDEO. 408 00:14:33,772 --> 00:14:36,976 AND THIS STUDY WAS DONE IN THIS 409 00:14:37,042 --> 00:14:38,510 ANIMAL 784 DAYS AFTER THAT HEART 410 00:14:38,577 --> 00:14:41,347 WAS PLACED INTO THE ABDOMEN. 411 00:14:41,413 --> 00:14:42,681 PRETTY IMPRESSIVE, RIGHT? 412 00:14:42,748 --> 00:14:45,251 SO YOU DO THE MATH, I THINK 413 00:14:45,317 --> 00:14:46,485 THERE ARE 365 DAYS IN A YEAR, SO 414 00:14:46,552 --> 00:14:49,555 THIS WENT ON EVEN FURTHER. 415 00:14:49,622 --> 00:14:53,058 SO IT LOOKS LIKE AT LEAST THE 416 00:14:53,125 --> 00:14:54,260 IMMUNE SUPPRESSIVE PROTOCOL, 417 00:14:54,326 --> 00:14:56,128 WHICH WAS WORKED ON HERE, SEEMED 418 00:14:56,195 --> 00:14:59,932 TO BE WORKING. 419 00:14:59,999 --> 00:15:01,133 WE TOOK THAT OPPORTUNITY TO 420 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:02,568 RECRUIT YOUR WONDERFUL 421 00:15:02,635 --> 00:15:06,372 SCIENTIST, DR. MOHADEEN TO 422 00:15:06,438 --> 00:15:07,506 MARYLAND, AND WE BECAME FAST 423 00:15:07,573 --> 00:15:07,740 FRIENDS. 424 00:15:07,806 --> 00:15:09,141 AND THE ROLE OF THE MARYLAND LAB 425 00:15:09,208 --> 00:15:10,576 WAS TO TAKE THAT HEART OUT OF 426 00:15:10,643 --> 00:15:11,977 THE ABDOMEN AND PUT IT IN THE 427 00:15:12,044 --> 00:15:13,178 CHEST AND MAKE IT A WORKING 428 00:15:13,245 --> 00:15:14,713 HEART. 429 00:15:14,780 --> 00:15:18,851 BASICALLY DO A HUMAN ESQUE-TYPE 430 00:15:18,917 --> 00:15:20,819 TRANSPLANT OF THAT BABOON WITH 431 00:15:20,886 --> 00:15:22,154 THE PIG'S HEART SO IT WOULD BE 432 00:15:22,221 --> 00:15:24,556 IN A WORKING DEMAND 433 00:15:24,623 --> 00:15:26,425 RELATIONSHIP, AND THAT WAS THE 434 00:15:26,492 --> 00:15:27,192 NECESSARY STEP BEFORE WE COULD 435 00:15:27,259 --> 00:15:31,563 BEGIN TO CONSIDER A HUMAN USE. 436 00:15:31,630 --> 00:15:32,631 THAT'S WHAT THAT HEART LOOKS 437 00:15:32,698 --> 00:15:33,098 LIKE. 438 00:15:33,165 --> 00:15:33,766 PRETTY NEAT, RIGHT? 439 00:15:33,832 --> 00:15:35,100 THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE HEART FOR 440 00:15:35,167 --> 00:15:36,268 OUR SECOND PATIENT. 441 00:15:36,335 --> 00:15:37,336 BEAUTIFUL, RIGHT? 442 00:15:37,403 --> 00:15:38,570 THAT'S BEFORE WE REMOVED IT FROM 443 00:15:38,637 --> 00:15:40,606 THE PIG. 444 00:15:40,673 --> 00:15:42,274 WE DID A BUNCH OF STUDIES, AND 445 00:15:42,341 --> 00:15:44,276 WHEN I SAY A BUNCH OF STUDIES, 446 00:15:44,343 --> 00:15:44,777 I'M EMBARRASSED. 447 00:15:44,843 --> 00:15:46,545 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE ENDS ON THE 448 00:15:46,612 --> 00:15:49,481 RIGHT-HAND SIDE, N OF 1, N OF 2, 449 00:15:49,548 --> 00:15:52,651 N OF 4, THAT'S SILLY SCIENCE, 450 00:15:52,718 --> 00:15:53,218 RIGHT? 451 00:15:53,285 --> 00:15:56,188 BUT REMEMBER THESE ARE 452 00:15:56,255 --> 00:15:57,022 ENGINEERED PIG HEARTS THAT GO 453 00:15:57,089 --> 00:15:59,658 INTO A BABOON, AND THEN THEY'RE 454 00:15:59,725 --> 00:16:01,293 TAKEN CARE OF FOR A LONG TIME. 455 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:02,728 WE AVERAGED OUT THE COST OF EACH 456 00:16:02,795 --> 00:16:03,962 OF THESE EXPERIMENTS TO BE IN 457 00:16:04,029 --> 00:16:07,966 THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 500 TO 458 00:16:08,033 --> 00:16:08,233 $750,000. 459 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:09,401 A PIECE. 460 00:16:09,468 --> 00:16:13,672 AND THEY TAKE A TON, YOU CAN'T 461 00:16:13,739 --> 00:16:15,341 DO A WHOLE BUNCH OF THEM IN A 462 00:16:15,407 --> 00:16:17,042 DAY SO IT'S ALL HANDS ON DECK TO 463 00:16:17,109 --> 00:16:18,143 GET ONE OF THESE ANIMALS 464 00:16:18,210 --> 00:16:19,144 THROUGH. 465 00:16:19,211 --> 00:16:20,979 ANYWAY, WE SETTLE ON THIS RED 466 00:16:21,046 --> 00:16:22,181 LINE OR EXCUSE ME ON THE GREEN 467 00:16:22,247 --> 00:16:25,584 LINE, WHICH IS THE 10 GENE PIG, 468 00:16:25,651 --> 00:16:26,452 BECAUSE THAT MADE THE MOST SENSE 469 00:16:26,518 --> 00:16:27,753 TO OUR SPONSOR BECAUSE THAT WAS 470 00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:28,987 THE PIG THEY WERE TRYING TO 471 00:16:29,054 --> 00:16:30,823 PRODUCE FOR UNIVERSAL NEED, 472 00:16:30,889 --> 00:16:31,924 KIDNEY, LUNG AND HEART. 473 00:16:31,990 --> 00:16:35,361 WE KIND OF LIKE THE 7 GENE PIG 474 00:16:35,427 --> 00:16:38,997 BUT WE WON'T GO INTO THAT TODAY. 475 00:16:39,064 --> 00:16:39,365 OKAY. 476 00:16:39,431 --> 00:16:41,767 DOES THE PIG HEART WORK? 477 00:16:41,834 --> 00:16:43,369 YOU'RE DARN RIGHT, IT WORKS, AND 478 00:16:43,435 --> 00:16:46,138 ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE, THIS IS 479 00:16:46,205 --> 00:16:46,705 MY SECOND PATIENT. 480 00:16:46,772 --> 00:16:49,108 BEFORE HE ROLLED IN FOR HIS 481 00:16:49,174 --> 00:16:49,742 TRANSPLANT. 482 00:16:49,808 --> 00:16:53,245 HE GOT SICK AS HECK. 483 00:16:53,312 --> 00:16:54,913 HIS HEART FIB RI LATED THE DAY 484 00:16:54,980 --> 00:16:56,982 BEFORE HE HAD SURGERY, HE WAS 485 00:16:57,049 --> 00:16:58,917 DEFIBRILLATED BY THAT AUTOMATIC 486 00:16:58,984 --> 00:16:59,918 DEFIBRILLATOR IN HIS CHEST. 487 00:16:59,985 --> 00:17:01,353 HIS CHEST WAS FULL OF FLUID, HIS 488 00:17:01,420 --> 00:17:02,988 LUNGS WERE FULL OF FLUID BECAUSE 489 00:17:03,055 --> 00:17:05,124 HIS HEART WAS ON ITS LAST LEG. 490 00:17:05,190 --> 00:17:06,925 SO WE HAD LOTS OF HIGH LEFT 491 00:17:06,992 --> 00:17:08,293 ATRIAL PRESSURE, PULMONARY 492 00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:08,560 EDEMA. 493 00:17:08,627 --> 00:17:10,963 HE WAS IN REAL TROUBLE. 494 00:17:11,029 --> 00:17:13,966 COMING OUT OF THE O.R. AFTER HIS 495 00:17:14,032 --> 00:17:15,567 PIG HEART TRANSPLANT, HE LOOKS 496 00:17:15,634 --> 00:17:18,203 LIKE THE IMAGE ON THE LEFT. 497 00:17:18,270 --> 00:17:19,938 SO THAT IS A PIG HEART IN HIS 498 00:17:20,005 --> 00:17:20,906 CHEST. 499 00:17:20,973 --> 00:17:22,474 THE LUNGS LOOK BETTER, RIGHT? 500 00:17:22,541 --> 00:17:23,876 YOU WOULD AGREE, RIGHT? 501 00:17:23,942 --> 00:17:25,677 YES, NOD HEAD, PLEASE. 502 00:17:25,744 --> 00:17:26,612 THANK YOU. 503 00:17:26,678 --> 00:17:28,580 SO THE HEART WORKS, YOU KNOW? 504 00:17:28,647 --> 00:17:30,115 IT A PIG HEART IN A HUMAN. 505 00:17:30,182 --> 00:17:31,083 WHO WOULD GUESS, RIGHT? 506 00:17:31,150 --> 00:17:32,618 SO IT'S A GOOD THING IT WORKED. 507 00:17:32,684 --> 00:17:34,586 AND TO SHOW YOU A LITTLE MORE 508 00:17:34,653 --> 00:17:36,688 THAT IT WORKED, THIS IS AN 509 00:17:36,755 --> 00:17:37,122 ECHOCARDIOGRAM. 510 00:17:37,189 --> 00:17:40,826 IT'S A PARTICULAR TYPE THAT 511 00:17:40,893 --> 00:17:42,461 SHOWS STRAIN, IT SHOWS 512 00:17:42,528 --> 00:17:43,328 LONGITUDAL STRAIN. 513 00:17:43,395 --> 00:17:44,997 IT BASICALLY SHOWS HOW WELL THAT 514 00:17:45,063 --> 00:17:47,366 HEART WILL CONTRACT, 515 00:17:47,433 --> 00:17:50,803 BEAT-TO-BEAT, IN A LONGITUDAL 516 00:17:50,869 --> 00:17:51,203 ARRAY. 517 00:17:51,270 --> 00:17:52,671 AND I'VE USED THE WORD BEFORE 518 00:17:52,738 --> 00:17:54,239 AND I USE IT EVERY TIME I SEE 519 00:17:54,306 --> 00:17:54,740 IT. 520 00:17:54,807 --> 00:17:57,543 THIS HEART IS A ROCK STAR. 521 00:17:57,609 --> 00:18:04,550 WORKS REALLY WELL. 522 00:18:04,616 --> 00:18:06,218 WE GOT 100 DAYS OF EXPERIENCE, 523 00:18:06,285 --> 00:18:07,853 BUT BEFORE WE DID SO, WE HAD TO 524 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:09,488 GET PERMISSION TO GO FORWARD. 525 00:18:09,555 --> 00:18:11,990 SO WE TOOK ALL OF OUR EXPERIENCE 526 00:18:12,057 --> 00:18:16,929 IN THE LABORATORY, AND SENT TO 527 00:18:16,995 --> 00:18:18,564 THE FDA. 528 00:18:18,630 --> 00:18:19,798 AND NONE OF US THOUGHT THEY 529 00:18:19,865 --> 00:18:22,935 WOULD SAY YES. 530 00:18:23,001 --> 00:18:24,136 THEY DID. 531 00:18:24,203 --> 00:18:28,307 AND CERTAINLY MY INSTITUTION 532 00:18:28,373 --> 00:18:29,408 DIDN'T THINK -- THEY ALL WENT 533 00:18:29,475 --> 00:18:30,742 AWAY FOR THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND, 534 00:18:30,809 --> 00:18:31,977 WHICH WAS, YOU KNOW, A LONG 535 00:18:32,044 --> 00:18:33,445 CHRISTMAS AND THEN NEW YEAR'S, 536 00:18:33,512 --> 00:18:35,414 THEY CAME BACK, YOU KNOW, AFTER 537 00:18:35,481 --> 00:18:37,349 THE FIRST, AND I GOT THE FIRST 538 00:18:37,416 --> 00:18:40,752 LETTER OF APPROVAL DECEMBER 31ST 539 00:18:40,819 --> 00:18:42,287 AT 5:00 P.M. 540 00:18:42,354 --> 00:18:43,989 I REMEMBER IT BECAUSE I JUST SAT 541 00:18:44,056 --> 00:18:46,024 DOWN WITH MY WIFE WITH A GLASS 542 00:18:46,091 --> 00:18:47,426 OF CHAMPAGNE, AND THEN THERE WAS 543 00:18:47,493 --> 00:18:49,862 REASON TO DRAIN THE BOTTLE. 544 00:18:49,928 --> 00:18:51,163 BUT THEN WE GOT REALLY SCARED, 545 00:18:51,230 --> 00:18:52,464 RIGHT? 546 00:18:52,531 --> 00:18:53,699 SO ONE OF THE THINGS I MENTIONED 547 00:18:53,765 --> 00:18:56,635 TO THE STUDENTS TODAY WAS HOW 548 00:18:56,702 --> 00:18:59,905 NICE IT WAS THAT THE REGULATORY 549 00:18:59,972 --> 00:19:02,741 PROGRAM AT THE FDA NOT ONLY DID 550 00:19:02,808 --> 00:19:05,043 THEY DO A THOROUGH EVALUATION IN 551 00:19:05,110 --> 00:19:06,678 MY OPINION, THEY MADE US ANSWER 552 00:19:06,745 --> 00:19:08,347 THE QUESTIONS THAT WE FELT WE 553 00:19:08,413 --> 00:19:10,549 HAD TO ANSWER. 554 00:19:10,616 --> 00:19:11,850 AND THEN WHEN IT WAS ALL SAID 555 00:19:11,917 --> 00:19:13,919 AND DONE AND THEY'D GIVEN US 556 00:19:13,986 --> 00:19:14,786 PERMISSION, THE DAY OF THE 557 00:19:14,853 --> 00:19:16,421 INTENDED SURGERY, I GOT AN EMAIL 558 00:19:16,488 --> 00:19:17,756 IN THE MORNING -- OR THE NIGHT 559 00:19:17,823 --> 00:19:19,391 BEFORE, AND IT JUST SIMPLY SAID 560 00:19:19,458 --> 00:19:22,060 THIS, WHICH WAS, "DR. GRIFFITH, 561 00:19:22,127 --> 00:19:24,096 WE WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK 562 00:19:24,162 --> 00:19:24,363 TOMORROW." 563 00:19:24,429 --> 00:19:25,264 ISN'T THAT NICE? 564 00:19:25,330 --> 00:19:26,598 I MEAN, ISN'T THAT NICE? 565 00:19:26,665 --> 00:19:28,333 IT MADE ME FEEL REALLY GOOD 566 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,435 THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAD BEEN 567 00:19:30,502 --> 00:19:31,503 THROUGH THE GAUNTLET OF 568 00:19:31,570 --> 00:19:32,604 REGULATORY APPROVAL AND NOW 569 00:19:32,671 --> 00:19:34,273 THEY'RE CHEERING FOR US. 570 00:19:34,339 --> 00:19:39,945 THAT WAS PRETTY NEAT. 571 00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:41,146 PATIENT -- AS I TOLD YOU AT THE 572 00:19:41,213 --> 00:19:43,982 VERY FIRST SLIDE, IT'S YOUR LAST 573 00:19:44,049 --> 00:19:45,417 DAY, HAVE AN ICE CREAM CONE, 574 00:19:45,484 --> 00:19:46,618 WELL, HAVE A PIG HEART BECAUSE 575 00:19:46,685 --> 00:19:47,920 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LIVE LONG IF 576 00:19:47,986 --> 00:19:49,454 YOU DON'T, AND YOU MAY LIVE 577 00:19:49,521 --> 00:19:51,423 LONGER IF YOU DO. 578 00:19:51,490 --> 00:19:53,725 AND THAT'S THE APPROACH THAT I 579 00:19:53,792 --> 00:19:55,494 TOOK WITH MY PATIENT. 580 00:19:55,561 --> 00:19:56,562 HE WAS VERY SICK. 581 00:19:56,628 --> 00:19:58,964 YOU CAN SEE THIS POUR SOUL. 582 00:19:59,031 --> 00:20:01,166 HIS LOWER LEG IS SHOWN ON THE 583 00:20:01,233 --> 00:20:04,202 LEFT PANEL WITH MY NOT VERY BIG 584 00:20:04,269 --> 00:20:05,737 HAND TRYING TO GET AROUND THE 585 00:20:05,804 --> 00:20:08,941 ENTIRETY OF IT WITH A FINGER -- 586 00:20:09,007 --> 00:20:11,343 THUMB AND AN INDEX FINGER. 587 00:20:11,410 --> 00:20:13,011 HIS VENTRICLE WAS NOT SQUEEZING 588 00:20:13,078 --> 00:20:14,279 WELL AT ALL. 589 00:20:14,346 --> 00:20:17,349 THAT'S A VERY, VERY 590 00:20:17,416 --> 00:20:18,150 HYPOCONTRACTILE LEFT VENTRICLE 591 00:20:18,216 --> 00:20:19,318 AND QUITE ENLARGED. 592 00:20:19,384 --> 00:20:20,953 HE HAD BEEN HOSPITALIZED FOR 593 00:20:21,019 --> 00:20:21,720 61 DAYS. 594 00:20:21,787 --> 00:20:28,293 HIS WHITE COUNT WAS 3.2 AND IT 595 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:29,595 HIT .1 AFTER THE PROCEDURE. 596 00:20:29,661 --> 00:20:30,862 HIS PLATELET COUNT WAS LOW AND 597 00:20:30,929 --> 00:20:32,564 IT WENT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 10 598 00:20:32,631 --> 00:20:33,865 AFTER THE PROCEDURE. 599 00:20:33,932 --> 00:20:36,702 HE HAD THIS STRIKING SARCOPENIA, 600 00:20:36,768 --> 00:20:38,503 AND THAT MEANS LOSS OF MUSCLE 601 00:20:38,570 --> 00:20:39,004 MASS. 602 00:20:39,071 --> 00:20:41,506 SO HE WAS VERY MUCH KE KAK TICK. 603 00:20:41,573 --> 00:20:45,010 ONE WOULD NOT THINK IT WOULD BE 604 00:20:45,077 --> 00:20:49,615 SENSENSIBLE TO DO ANY KIND OF 605 00:20:49,681 --> 00:20:50,582 EXTREME SURGERY ON IT. 606 00:20:50,649 --> 00:20:52,250 BUT HE HAD NO OPTION AND WE 607 00:20:52,317 --> 00:20:53,652 FRANKLY THOUGHT WE NEEDED TO 608 00:20:53,719 --> 00:20:54,319 LEARN WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. 609 00:20:54,386 --> 00:20:56,154 WE DID PRETTY WELL OVERALL, AND 610 00:20:56,221 --> 00:20:57,723 WE WERE SITTING AROUND AFTER 611 00:20:57,789 --> 00:20:59,024 ABOUT 21 DAYS, HE WAS GETTING 612 00:20:59,091 --> 00:21:00,325 BETTER, HE WAS PUTTING ON SOME 613 00:21:00,392 --> 00:21:00,692 MUSCLE. 614 00:21:00,759 --> 00:21:01,960 WE WERE KIND OF FEELING GOOD 615 00:21:02,027 --> 00:21:04,196 ABOUT THINGS AND OUR I.D. TEAM, 616 00:21:04,262 --> 00:21:06,665 AND WE DID MULTIDISCIPLINARY 617 00:21:06,732 --> 00:21:09,501 ROUNDS EVERY DAY IN THE MORNING 618 00:21:09,568 --> 00:21:09,868 AND AT NIGHT. 619 00:21:09,935 --> 00:21:12,037 IT WAS REALLY COMING TOGETHER OF 620 00:21:12,104 --> 00:21:13,238 IN-KIND CRAZIES WHO REALLY CARED 621 00:21:13,305 --> 00:21:13,939 ABOUT THIS PATIENT. 622 00:21:14,006 --> 00:21:15,641 IT WAS A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY 623 00:21:15,707 --> 00:21:17,643 TO LEARN FROM THEM AND THEN FROM 624 00:21:17,709 --> 00:21:18,710 US. 625 00:21:18,777 --> 00:21:21,213 BUT THE I.D. GUY WHO WAS RATHER 626 00:21:21,279 --> 00:21:26,151 QUIET, SUBTLE, KAPIL SAHARIA, HE 627 00:21:26,218 --> 00:21:27,786 HAD SEEN THIS LITTLE BLIP HERE 628 00:21:27,853 --> 00:21:32,924 AT DAY 25 IN CELL-FREE DNA OF A 629 00:21:32,991 --> 00:21:34,259 VIRUS KNOWN TO BE PRESENT IN 630 00:21:34,326 --> 00:21:36,094 PIGS. 631 00:21:36,161 --> 00:21:38,196 AND IT WAS NOW IN MY PATIENT'S 632 00:21:38,263 --> 00:21:40,532 SERUM. 633 00:21:40,599 --> 00:21:40,899 OKAY? 634 00:21:40,966 --> 00:21:43,969 HE GOT SOME DNA FRAGMENT KNOWN 635 00:21:44,036 --> 00:21:45,837 TO BE PRESENT IN THIS VIRUS THAT 636 00:21:45,904 --> 00:21:47,272 WE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN 637 00:21:47,339 --> 00:21:48,006 TRANSPLANTING INTO THE PATIENT. 638 00:21:48,073 --> 00:21:49,541 WHERE DID THE PATIENT GET IT? 639 00:21:49,608 --> 00:21:50,375 WELL, IT WOULD HAVE TO COME FROM 640 00:21:50,442 --> 00:21:51,309 THE HEART. 641 00:21:51,376 --> 00:21:53,712 RIGHT? 642 00:21:53,779 --> 00:21:55,514 WE THOUGHT IT WAS CRAZY AND HE 643 00:21:55,580 --> 00:21:57,115 DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING UNTIL AFTER 644 00:21:57,182 --> 00:21:58,183 DAY 30, WHEN HE GOT ANOTHER 645 00:21:58,250 --> 00:21:59,518 SAMPLE. 646 00:21:59,584 --> 00:22:01,253 AND IT WAS GOING UP. 647 00:22:01,319 --> 00:22:03,555 SO NOW WE'RE FREAKING OUT, 648 00:22:03,622 --> 00:22:04,322 RIGHT? 649 00:22:04,389 --> 00:22:06,391 WE TRANSPLANTED A HEART THAT HAD 650 00:22:06,458 --> 00:22:08,827 PCMV, WE KNEW PCMV IS NOT A GOOD 651 00:22:08,894 --> 00:22:10,762 THING FOR HUMANS TO HAVE. 652 00:22:10,829 --> 00:22:13,165 CMV LIVES IN THE ENDOTHELIUM AND 653 00:22:13,231 --> 00:22:15,801 WHEN IT COMES OUT OF ITS 654 00:22:15,867 --> 00:22:17,869 HIBERNATION WITH REDUCED 655 00:22:17,936 --> 00:22:19,638 IMMUNITY, JUST LIKE HERPES DOES 656 00:22:19,705 --> 00:22:23,675 IN YOUR LIP, IT EXPLODES THE 657 00:22:23,742 --> 00:22:25,510 CELL OF ORIGIN, WHICH WOULD BE 658 00:22:25,577 --> 00:22:27,546 THE ENDOTHELIAL CELL, AND THAT 659 00:22:27,612 --> 00:22:29,047 WOULD BREAK DOWN CAPILLARIES. 660 00:22:29,114 --> 00:22:30,248 NOT GOOD. 661 00:22:30,315 --> 00:22:32,317 WE GAVE HIM A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT 662 00:22:32,384 --> 00:22:34,386 ANTIVIRALS AS SHOWN HERE. 663 00:22:34,453 --> 00:22:35,487 THOSE ANTIVIRALS ARE ROUGH ON 664 00:22:35,554 --> 00:22:36,054 THE BONE MARROW. 665 00:22:36,121 --> 00:22:37,122 REMEMBER WHAT I TOLD YOU? 666 00:22:37,189 --> 00:22:39,591 IN FACT, IT TOOK OFF ON DAY 45 667 00:22:39,658 --> 00:22:42,728 BECAUSE WE HAD TO CHANGE THE 668 00:22:42,794 --> 00:22:44,129 ANTIVIRAL THERAPY TO REDUCE IT 669 00:22:44,196 --> 00:22:46,331 SIMPLY BECAUSE HE WAS 670 00:22:46,398 --> 00:22:47,165 NEUTROPENIC. 671 00:22:47,232 --> 00:22:48,166 AGAIN, AND THIS GOES BACK TO 672 00:22:48,233 --> 00:22:49,367 PICKING YOUR PATIENT, RIGHT? 673 00:22:49,434 --> 00:22:51,336 IF WE'D PICKED A PATIENT WITH 674 00:22:51,403 --> 00:22:52,104 BETTER BONE MARROW, HE WOULD 675 00:22:52,170 --> 00:22:53,338 HAVE DONE BETTER, BUT WE 676 00:22:53,405 --> 00:22:54,272 WOULDN'T HAVE DONE THE PROCEDURE 677 00:22:54,339 --> 00:22:55,373 BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE THAT 678 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:55,607 PATIENT. 679 00:22:55,674 --> 00:22:57,042 SO WE DID OUR BEST WITH WHAT WE 680 00:22:57,109 --> 00:22:57,709 HAD. 681 00:22:57,776 --> 00:22:59,678 BUT THERE ARE ALWAYS LIMITS. 682 00:22:59,745 --> 00:23:00,979 IN THE END, I THINK WE KILLED 683 00:23:01,046 --> 00:23:03,048 THE VIRUS. 684 00:23:03,115 --> 00:23:05,450 AND THE PATIENT ENDED UP PASSING 685 00:23:05,517 --> 00:23:06,518 AWAY AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT 686 00:23:06,585 --> 00:23:09,621 DEATH. 687 00:23:09,688 --> 00:23:11,156 THIS PATIENT AGAIN HAD A ROCK 688 00:23:11,223 --> 00:23:11,790 STAR HEART. 689 00:23:11,857 --> 00:23:14,860 IT'S SHOWN ON THE LEFT PANEL. 690 00:23:14,926 --> 00:23:16,728 DAY 19. 691 00:23:16,795 --> 00:23:20,332 DAY 49, IT LOOKS VERY DIFFERENT. 692 00:23:20,398 --> 00:23:21,433 IT'S THICKER, ISN'T IT? 693 00:23:21,500 --> 00:23:22,534 DOES IT LOOK THICKER? 694 00:23:22,601 --> 00:23:23,168 IT SHOULD. 695 00:23:23,235 --> 00:23:25,804 IT'S SQUEEZING, BUT IT'S 696 00:23:25,871 --> 00:23:26,104 THICKENING. 697 00:23:26,171 --> 00:23:27,005 AND THE PATIENT HAD SOMETHING 698 00:23:27,072 --> 00:23:29,074 THAT I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE IN 699 00:23:29,141 --> 00:23:31,710 CLINICAL MEDICINE, AND THAT IS 700 00:23:31,777 --> 00:23:33,145 ACUTE DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION. 701 00:23:33,211 --> 00:23:35,380 AND THAT MEANS THE HEART CAN'T 702 00:23:35,447 --> 00:23:36,515 RELAX TO FILL. 703 00:23:36,581 --> 00:23:37,849 JUST LIKE A BELL OWES. 704 00:23:37,916 --> 00:23:41,019 IF YOU DON'T OPEN THE BELLOWS, 705 00:23:41,086 --> 00:23:41,787 NOTHING COMES OUT. 706 00:23:41,853 --> 00:23:43,388 IF YOU CAN ONLY OPEN IT HALFWAY, 707 00:23:43,455 --> 00:23:44,856 YOU DON'T GET NEARLY AS MUCH 708 00:23:44,923 --> 00:23:45,824 STROKE OUT. 709 00:23:45,891 --> 00:23:47,692 WELL, THIS HEART CAN'T RELAX, 710 00:23:47,759 --> 00:23:48,627 AND WE'D NEVER SEEN ANYTHING 711 00:23:48,693 --> 00:23:48,994 LIKE IT. 712 00:23:49,060 --> 00:23:52,497 WE REALLY HADN'T SEEN IT IN OUR 713 00:23:52,564 --> 00:23:53,832 NON-HUMAN PRIMATE TO ANY 714 00:23:53,899 --> 00:23:54,366 GREAT DEGREE EITHER. 715 00:23:54,432 --> 00:23:55,567 WE WEREN'T REALLY SURE WHETHER 716 00:23:55,634 --> 00:23:56,868 THIS WAS AN ADVENT OF SEPSIS, 717 00:23:56,935 --> 00:23:58,837 MAYBE IT WAS A MYOCARDIAL 718 00:23:58,904 --> 00:23:59,304 DEPRESSANT FACTOR. 719 00:23:59,371 --> 00:24:00,939 SOMETHING WAS GOING ON. 720 00:24:01,006 --> 00:24:02,207 BUT WE'VE LEARNED MORE ABOUT 721 00:24:02,274 --> 00:24:04,209 WHAT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. 722 00:24:04,276 --> 00:24:05,844 REMEMBER I TALKED ABOUT THE 723 00:24:05,911 --> 00:24:07,479 ENDOTHELIAL CELL AND THE VIRUS. 724 00:24:07,546 --> 00:24:09,147 WE WERE STILL PERCOLATING WITH 725 00:24:09,214 --> 00:24:10,882 THIS VIRUS STORY, WE DIDN'T KNOW 726 00:24:10,949 --> 00:24:14,186 WHERE WE WERE WITH THAT. 727 00:24:14,252 --> 00:24:19,424 AT THE TIME OF HIS FIRST END 728 00:24:19,491 --> 00:24:21,393 ENDO MYOCARD YAL BIOPSY ON DAY 729 00:24:21,459 --> 00:24:22,694 33, IT WAS DONE JUST FOR 730 00:24:22,761 --> 00:24:23,562 SURVEILLANCE. 731 00:24:23,628 --> 00:24:24,596 THE CARDIOLOGIST COULDN'T WAIT 732 00:24:24,663 --> 00:24:25,964 FOR US TO TAKE A PIECE OF THIS 733 00:24:26,031 --> 00:24:26,832 MAN'S HEART SO THEY COULD LOOK 734 00:24:26,898 --> 00:24:28,033 AT IT UNDER THE MICROSCOPE. 735 00:24:28,099 --> 00:24:31,336 WE WERE INTERESTED BUT WE WERE 736 00:24:31,403 --> 00:24:32,437 CONSERVATIVE BECAUSE HE HAD NO 737 00:24:32,504 --> 00:24:33,305 PLATELET COUNT. 738 00:24:33,371 --> 00:24:35,507 AND SO WE DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE A 739 00:24:35,574 --> 00:24:36,374 RUPTURE OF THE HEART AND GET 740 00:24:36,441 --> 00:24:37,242 INTO BLEEDING DIFFICULTIES. 741 00:24:37,309 --> 00:24:38,677 SO WE JUST KIND OF HUNG OUT FOR 742 00:24:38,743 --> 00:24:41,947 A WHILE. 743 00:24:42,013 --> 00:24:42,914 THE SECOND BIOPSY -- AND BY THE 744 00:24:42,981 --> 00:24:44,449 WAY, THAT FIRST BIOPSY SHOWS A 745 00:24:44,516 --> 00:24:46,852 GREAT BIG NUCLEUS AND THAT'S AN 746 00:24:46,918 --> 00:24:47,853 ENDOTHELIAL CELL THAT'S NORMAL. 747 00:24:47,919 --> 00:24:49,054 THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO 748 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:51,556 LOOK LIKE ON E.M. 749 00:24:51,623 --> 00:24:53,258 THE NEXT ONE SHOWS SOME SWELLING 750 00:24:53,325 --> 00:24:53,758 OF THE CELL. 751 00:24:53,825 --> 00:24:55,393 IT'S NOT PERFECTLY NORMAL. 752 00:24:55,460 --> 00:24:59,331 AND THEN THE THIRD ENDO MYOCARD 753 00:24:59,397 --> 00:25:01,533 YAL BIOPSY SHOWS THAT WE'VE HAD 754 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,602 EXPLOSION OF THE CAPILLARY BED. 755 00:25:03,668 --> 00:25:05,003 WE'VE LOST ENDOTHELIAL CELLS. 756 00:25:05,070 --> 00:25:06,037 AND WITH THAT, GUESS WHAT 757 00:25:06,104 --> 00:25:06,438 HAPPENS? 758 00:25:06,504 --> 00:25:09,908 THE HEART WILL SWELL. 759 00:25:09,975 --> 00:25:10,775 RIGHT? 760 00:25:10,842 --> 00:25:12,410 YOU DON'T HAVE A VASCULAR 761 00:25:12,477 --> 00:25:15,146 BARRIER ANYMORE. 762 00:25:15,213 --> 00:25:16,481 IT JUST LIKE LUNGS THAT GET SICK 763 00:25:16,548 --> 00:25:17,816 WITH ARDS. 764 00:25:17,883 --> 00:25:18,250 THEY LEAK. 765 00:25:18,316 --> 00:25:21,086 SO OUR HEART WAS LEAKING, AND IT 766 00:25:21,152 --> 00:25:22,387 DID SO JUST LIKE IF YOU HAD 767 00:25:22,454 --> 00:25:24,789 TURNED YOUR ANKLE ON THE CURB 768 00:25:24,856 --> 00:25:25,891 COMING OVER HERE TODAY AND YOU 769 00:25:25,957 --> 00:25:28,994 LOOKED DOWN AND WITHIN 770 00:25:29,060 --> 00:25:30,829 10 SECONDS, IT'S THE SIZE OF A 771 00:25:30,896 --> 00:25:31,263 GRAPEFRUIT, RIGHT? 772 00:25:31,329 --> 00:25:33,565 IT JUST IS REACTION. 773 00:25:33,632 --> 00:25:34,633 AND WE THOUGHT THAT MAYBE THAT'S 774 00:25:34,699 --> 00:25:36,935 WHAT WE HAD SEEN, AND WE WEREN'T 775 00:25:37,002 --> 00:25:38,370 SURE WHETHER THIS WAS FROM THE 776 00:25:38,436 --> 00:25:43,074 VIRUS OR WHAT. 777 00:25:43,141 --> 00:25:44,276 WE WROTE THAT UP, SPENT A YEAR 778 00:25:44,342 --> 00:25:45,377 AND A HALF TRYING TO GET SMART 779 00:25:45,443 --> 00:25:46,344 AND WE REALLY DIDN'T. 780 00:25:46,411 --> 00:25:47,679 WE REALLY WEREN'T SURE. 781 00:25:47,746 --> 00:25:49,547 SO WE CLEANED UP OUR PATIENT 782 00:25:49,614 --> 00:25:49,814 CRITERIA. 783 00:25:49,881 --> 00:25:52,817 WE'RE GOING TO GIVE A SECOND 784 00:25:52,884 --> 00:25:53,919 PATIENT AN OPPORTUNITY HERE AND 785 00:25:53,985 --> 00:25:55,754 WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THEY 786 00:25:55,820 --> 00:25:57,122 HAVE A GOOD BONE MARROW, AND BY 787 00:25:57,188 --> 00:25:59,157 THE WAY, WE'RE GOING TO GET A 788 00:25:59,224 --> 00:26:00,458 BETTER TEST FOR THAT VIRUS THAT 789 00:26:00,525 --> 00:26:01,226 SLIPPED BY. 790 00:26:01,293 --> 00:26:02,193 WE DID BOTH THOSE THINGS. 791 00:26:02,260 --> 00:26:06,898 SO THE SECOND PATIENT WAS AN 792 00:26:06,965 --> 00:26:09,000 EX-TECHNICIAN IN THE 793 00:26:09,067 --> 00:26:10,568 HISTOPATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF THE 794 00:26:10,635 --> 00:26:13,038 I.D. DIVISION HERE AT THE NIH. 795 00:26:13,104 --> 00:26:14,773 HE UNDERSTOOD WHAT WE WERE 796 00:26:14,839 --> 00:26:15,340 TALKING ABOUT. 797 00:26:15,407 --> 00:26:17,976 HE UNDERSTOOD THAT HE WAS NOT 798 00:26:18,043 --> 00:26:20,578 LIKELY TO BENEFIT LONG TERM WITH 799 00:26:20,645 --> 00:26:22,013 THE PIG HEART TRANSPLANT, BUT IT 800 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:23,648 WAS HIS ONLY OPTION FOR REASONS 801 00:26:23,715 --> 00:26:27,052 I WON'T GO INTO. 802 00:26:27,118 --> 00:26:28,353 SO HE WANTED TO GET HOME AND 803 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:30,522 HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE WITH HIS 804 00:26:30,588 --> 00:26:32,624 WIFE ON HIS PORCH. 805 00:26:32,691 --> 00:26:33,625 THAT'S ALL HE WANTED. 806 00:26:33,692 --> 00:26:35,160 HE WAS THE GENTLEMAN THAT HAD 807 00:26:35,226 --> 00:26:36,561 THAT NASTY LOOKING X-RAY PRE-OP 808 00:26:36,628 --> 00:26:38,196 THAT I SHOWED ALREADY, AND THAT 809 00:26:38,263 --> 00:26:39,931 WAS HIS CT SCAN ALSO PREO SO WE 810 00:26:39,998 --> 00:26:41,366 WERE UP AGAINST IT THERE. 811 00:26:41,433 --> 00:26:43,068 BUT THERE HE IS ON POST-OP DAY 812 00:26:43,134 --> 00:26:44,235 TWO. 813 00:26:44,302 --> 00:26:47,038 STANDING UP WITH CHRIS WELLS, 814 00:26:47,105 --> 00:26:49,240 ONE OF OUR PHYSICAL THERAPISTS. 815 00:26:49,307 --> 00:26:49,808 PRETTY COOL. 816 00:26:49,874 --> 00:26:51,309 HE WENT ON TO PLAY CARDS AND, 817 00:26:51,376 --> 00:26:53,611 YOU KNOW, HE WAS VERY, VERY 818 00:26:53,678 --> 00:26:55,046 JIBBER JABBER AND, YOU KNOW, HE 819 00:26:55,113 --> 00:26:58,316 WAS HAPPY TO BE ALIVE. 820 00:26:58,383 --> 00:27:01,820 HE REALLY DIDN'T -- HE DIDN'T 821 00:27:01,886 --> 00:27:04,556 HAVE MUCH TO SAY NEGATIVE ABOUT 822 00:27:04,622 --> 00:27:07,292 HIS EXPERIENCE WHATSOEVER. 823 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,028 I DID TELL YOU WE DID A BIOPSY, 824 00:27:10,095 --> 00:27:12,297 RIGHT? 825 00:27:12,364 --> 00:27:15,066 THAT FIRST BIOPSY, WE TOOK A 826 00:27:15,133 --> 00:27:17,102 PHOTOGRAPH OF THE MICROSCOPIC 827 00:27:17,168 --> 00:27:18,336 VIEW AND WE BROUGHT THAT UP FOR 828 00:27:18,403 --> 00:27:20,739 HIM TO READ, BECAUSE WHAT WAS 829 00:27:20,805 --> 00:27:20,905 HE? 830 00:27:20,972 --> 00:27:22,841 HE WAS A HISTOPATHOLOGY TECH, 831 00:27:22,907 --> 00:27:23,375 RIGHT? 832 00:27:23,441 --> 00:27:25,477 SO IF YOU JUST FORGIVE ME FOR 833 00:27:25,543 --> 00:27:28,313 BEING A LITTLE SH MALTSY AND 834 00:27:28,380 --> 00:27:29,381 HUMAN, I WANT YOU TO HEAR WHAT 835 00:27:29,447 --> 00:27:33,718 HE SAID, OKAY? 836 00:27:33,785 --> 00:27:34,686 BOY, WE DON'T HAVE VOLUME. 837 00:27:34,753 --> 00:27:36,888 DO YOU HAVE VOLUME, GUYS? 838 00:27:36,955 --> 00:27:44,763 IT ON HERE. 839 00:27:44,829 --> 00:27:46,965 THIS ISING IF TO BE NOT SO GOOD. 840 00:27:47,032 --> 00:27:48,166 CAN YOU CHANGE THAT UP THERE? 841 00:27:48,233 --> 00:27:49,601 I'VE GOT A FINGER UP IN THE AIR 842 00:27:49,667 --> 00:27:50,902 SO MAYBE WE CAN GET IT. 843 00:27:50,969 --> 00:27:52,003 IT WORTH LISTENING TO. 844 00:27:52,070 --> 00:27:53,405 HE'S BASICALLY SAYING, THIS IS A 845 00:27:53,471 --> 00:27:54,639 NORMAL BIOPSY. 846 00:27:54,706 --> 00:27:57,776 IT LOOKS VERY GOOD HERE. 847 00:27:57,842 --> 00:28:01,079 AND HE -- WE KEPT SAYING -- SO 848 00:28:01,146 --> 00:28:03,715 IT LOOKS NORMAL TO YOU, RIGHT? 849 00:28:03,782 --> 00:28:05,884 WELL, WE WERE DELIGHTED -- LET'S 850 00:28:05,950 --> 00:28:07,185 SEE IF IT'S GOING TO RUN. 851 00:28:07,252 --> 00:28:08,486 >> WHAT DO YOU SEE IN HERE? 852 00:28:08,553 --> 00:28:16,728 >> I SEE PERFECTLY NORMAL HEART. 853 00:28:16,795 --> 00:28:21,232 -- RIGHT THERE. 854 00:28:21,299 --> 00:28:22,934 >> SO YOU'RE HAPPY ABOUT IT? 855 00:28:23,001 --> 00:28:24,135 >> I'M VERY HAPPY ABOUT THAT. 856 00:28:24,202 --> 00:28:25,703 >> NOW I REMIND YOU, THAT MAN 857 00:28:25,770 --> 00:28:27,338 HAS A PIG'S HEART. 858 00:28:27,405 --> 00:28:28,740 I COULDN'T GET OVER IT. 859 00:28:28,807 --> 00:28:28,940 RIGHT? 860 00:28:29,007 --> 00:28:30,175 AND TO THIS DAY, I CAN'T GET 861 00:28:30,241 --> 00:28:30,809 OVER IT. 862 00:28:30,875 --> 00:28:33,545 SIT DOWN AND TALK TO HIM ABOUT 863 00:28:33,611 --> 00:28:34,846 NORMAL STUFF. 864 00:28:34,913 --> 00:28:37,282 BALL GAMES, WHATEVER, HE HAS A 865 00:28:37,348 --> 00:28:38,583 PIG'S HEART. 866 00:28:38,650 --> 00:28:41,753 ANYHOW, OKAY. 867 00:28:41,820 --> 00:28:44,355 THE ZOO KNOW CYST PIECE, THE 868 00:28:44,422 --> 00:28:45,790 TRANSFER OF VIRUS OR AN 869 00:28:45,857 --> 00:28:47,859 INFECTION FROM AN ANIMAL TO A 870 00:28:47,926 --> 00:28:48,560 HUMAN, WE'RE REALLY WORRIED 871 00:28:48,626 --> 00:28:49,627 ABOUT THAT, RIGHT? 872 00:28:49,694 --> 00:28:52,163 AND THE BIG THING WERE THESE 873 00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:54,132 PERV VIRUSES WHICH CAN GET 874 00:28:54,199 --> 00:28:55,333 INTEGRATED INTO YOUR RNA AND 875 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:59,604 THEN YOU HAVE IT AND YOUR 876 00:28:59,671 --> 00:29:00,805 PROGENY HAS IT, YOU JUST -- YOU 877 00:29:00,872 --> 00:29:01,806 DON'T WANT THAT. 878 00:29:01,873 --> 00:29:03,341 SO THAT, WE DIDN'T SEE ANY OF, 879 00:29:03,408 --> 00:29:05,510 AND WE WERE ABLE TO COMPLETELY 880 00:29:05,577 --> 00:29:07,812 EXCLUDE ANY PRESENCE OF THAT 881 00:29:07,879 --> 00:29:12,450 PREVIOUS VIRUS PCMV, WHICH WAS 882 00:29:12,517 --> 00:29:13,551 GOOD, AND THE FDA THOUGHT THAT 883 00:29:13,618 --> 00:29:14,853 WAS REALLY NICE THAT WE WERE 884 00:29:14,919 --> 00:29:15,520 ABLE TO DO THAT. 885 00:29:15,587 --> 00:29:20,592 HERE HE IS PLAYING CARDS. 886 00:29:20,658 --> 00:29:22,327 HE DID HAVE SOME BLEEDING AFTER 887 00:29:22,393 --> 00:29:23,328 SURGERY. 888 00:29:23,394 --> 00:29:25,163 HE HAD KIND OF A SMALLISH HEART 889 00:29:25,230 --> 00:29:26,064 RELATIVE BECAUSE OF THAT 890 00:29:26,131 --> 00:29:30,768 REDUCTION IN SIZE, HI THE HEARTS 891 00:29:30,835 --> 00:29:31,970 KIND OF SMALL. 892 00:29:32,036 --> 00:29:33,171 JUST BARELY BIG ENOUGH TO GET 893 00:29:33,238 --> 00:29:33,805 THE JOB DONE. 894 00:29:33,872 --> 00:29:35,240 WE DIDN'T HAVE ANOTHER PIG TO 895 00:29:35,306 --> 00:29:38,309 OFFER BY THE WAY, SO WHY DIDN'T 896 00:29:38,376 --> 00:29:39,711 WE GIVE HIM A BIGGER ONE? 897 00:29:39,777 --> 00:29:40,712 BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE A BIGGER 898 00:29:40,778 --> 00:29:42,147 ONE AND HE WAS DYING SO THAT'S 899 00:29:42,213 --> 00:29:44,415 WHY WE THOUGHT WE'D GET BY. 900 00:29:44,482 --> 00:29:47,919 THE HEART DID TAKE PRETTY GOOD 901 00:29:47,986 --> 00:29:49,888 CARE BUT WE STARTED TO LOSE 902 00:29:49,954 --> 00:29:50,755 PACING ON DAY TWO. 903 00:29:50,822 --> 00:29:53,057 WE TOOK HIM TO THE O.R. AND 904 00:29:53,124 --> 00:29:55,527 SEWED A BUNCH OF PACE WIRES, WE 905 00:29:55,593 --> 00:29:56,895 COULDN'T GET THEM IN TO GIVE US 906 00:29:56,961 --> 00:29:57,862 A TEMPORARY PACE WIRE. 907 00:29:57,929 --> 00:30:00,498 AND WE WOULD HAVE NEEDED 1SEWN 908 00:30:00,565 --> 00:30:03,234 ANYHOW, SO HE HAD SOME BLEEDING 909 00:30:03,301 --> 00:30:04,469 THAT WE DIDN'T EXPECT FROM THAT 910 00:30:04,536 --> 00:30:06,104 A FEW DAYS LATER, AGAIN FROM A 911 00:30:06,171 --> 00:30:06,971 LOW PLATELET COUNT. 912 00:30:07,038 --> 00:30:09,807 WE GAVE HIM A BUNCH OF FFP, 913 00:30:09,874 --> 00:30:12,544 FRESH FROZEN PLASMA, WHICH HAS 914 00:30:12,610 --> 00:30:13,845 HUMAN ANTIPIG ANTIBODY IN IT 915 00:30:13,912 --> 00:30:18,249 BECAUSE IT'S FROM POOLED DONOR 916 00:30:18,316 --> 00:30:18,683 SOURCES. 917 00:30:18,750 --> 00:30:20,418 WE ALL HAVE AFNT-PIG ANTIBODY, 918 00:30:20,485 --> 00:30:24,822 SO WE GAVE HIM MAYBE A SURGE OF 919 00:30:24,889 --> 00:30:26,224 THAT AND MAYBE THAT WASN'T GOING 920 00:30:26,291 --> 00:30:27,859 TO BE A GOOD IDEA. 921 00:30:27,926 --> 00:30:29,160 HIS FIRST BIOPSY I TOLD YOU HE 922 00:30:29,227 --> 00:30:29,928 WAS READING, THAT'S THE PINK 923 00:30:29,994 --> 00:30:31,563 PIECE ON THE LEFT, IT DOES LOOK 924 00:30:31,629 --> 00:30:32,430 PRETTY GOOD. 925 00:30:32,497 --> 00:30:33,698 LATER IN THE AFTERNOON WE GOT 926 00:30:33,765 --> 00:30:35,500 THE WHITE PIECE AND THAT'S THE 927 00:30:35,567 --> 00:30:36,100 IMMUNE HISTOCHEMISTRY. 928 00:30:36,167 --> 00:30:38,369 THAT SHOWS IGG AND IGM BINDING 929 00:30:38,436 --> 00:30:41,739 THAT WASN'T SUBTLE. 930 00:30:41,806 --> 00:30:45,910 THAT'S HUMAN ANTI-PIG IGG AND 931 00:30:45,977 --> 00:30:46,778 IGM. 932 00:30:46,844 --> 00:30:48,846 WHERE DID IT COME FROM? 933 00:30:48,913 --> 00:30:49,614 WAS IT FROM HIM? 934 00:30:49,681 --> 00:30:50,648 THIS WAS ONLY DAY 13. 935 00:30:50,715 --> 00:30:53,451 OR DID WE TRANSFUSE HIM WITH IT? 936 00:30:53,518 --> 00:30:54,419 DON'T KNOW. 937 00:30:54,485 --> 00:30:58,356 HE ALSO HAS COMPLEMENT C4D. 938 00:30:58,423 --> 00:31:00,658 HE HAD C3D AS WELL, BUT THAT'S 939 00:31:00,725 --> 00:31:02,627 IMPORTANT GOING FORWARD. 940 00:31:02,694 --> 00:31:05,163 HE GOT SICKER OVER TIME, AND 941 00:31:05,230 --> 00:31:07,232 AGAIN, IT LOOKED LIKE HE HAD 942 00:31:07,298 --> 00:31:09,534 PROGRESSION IN THIS PROCESS OF 943 00:31:09,601 --> 00:31:11,636 THE ANTIBODY-MEDIATED PHENOMENA 944 00:31:11,703 --> 00:31:15,240 THAT WE CALL AMR OR 945 00:31:15,306 --> 00:31:15,840 ANTIBODY-MEDIATED REJECTION. 946 00:31:15,907 --> 00:31:17,842 AND THE HISTOPATHOLOGY BEGAN TO 947 00:31:17,909 --> 00:31:19,043 LOOK MORE AND MORE LIKE THAT. 948 00:31:19,110 --> 00:31:21,579 AND THEN WE BEGAN TO THINK ABOUT 949 00:31:21,646 --> 00:31:23,314 OUR FIRST PATIENT, AND OUR FIRST 950 00:31:23,381 --> 00:31:24,182 PATIENT'S ACUTE SWELLING AND 951 00:31:24,249 --> 00:31:26,251 GUESS WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS 952 00:31:26,317 --> 00:31:27,385 GENTLEMAN? 953 00:31:27,452 --> 00:31:28,653 AMR FOCUSES ON THE SAME THING 954 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:30,221 THAT THE VIRUS FOCUSES ON, WHICH 955 00:31:30,288 --> 00:31:32,523 IS THE ENDOTHELIAL CELL, AND SO 956 00:31:32,590 --> 00:31:34,259 WE HAD A LEAKY HEART, AND THIS 957 00:31:34,325 --> 00:31:35,994 ONE DID THE EXACT SAME THING, AS 958 00:31:36,060 --> 00:31:37,228 I WILL SHOW YOU. 959 00:31:37,295 --> 00:31:38,963 SO WE HAD TO WITHDRAW SUPPORT 960 00:31:39,030 --> 00:31:39,964 WHEN HE DIDN'T RESPOND TO ALL 961 00:31:40,031 --> 00:31:43,034 KINDS OF ADDITIONAL TREATMENTS. 962 00:31:43,101 --> 00:31:45,770 INCLUDING CAR FILL UM ZAB, WE 963 00:31:45,837 --> 00:31:49,173 STARTED A NEW ANTICOMPLEMENT 964 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:53,044 DRUG BUT I THINK WE LOST THE 965 00:31:53,111 --> 00:31:53,711 DEAL EARLIER. 966 00:31:53,778 --> 00:31:55,013 WE COULDN'T RECOVER, SO THE KEY 967 00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:56,447 WOULD BE TO LEARN WHEN YOUR 968 00:31:56,514 --> 00:31:57,749 PATIENT MAY BE GOING INTO 969 00:31:57,815 --> 00:32:00,051 REJECTION SO YOU CAN BE SMART 970 00:32:00,118 --> 00:32:02,020 WITH THE TREATMENT OR IMPROVE 971 00:32:02,086 --> 00:32:03,354 YOUR OVERALL BASIC IMMUNE 972 00:32:03,421 --> 00:32:04,455 SUPPRESSION SO IT DOESN'T HAPPEN 973 00:32:04,522 --> 00:32:09,560 IN THE FIRST PLACE. 974 00:32:09,627 --> 00:32:11,229 WE DID THE WORK IN TERMS OF 975 00:32:11,296 --> 00:32:14,932 REPORTING OUR LITERATURE AND 976 00:32:14,999 --> 00:32:16,668 THIS WAS AFTER OUR FIRST 977 00:32:16,734 --> 00:32:18,803 PATIENT, AND THEN AFTER THE 978 00:32:18,870 --> 00:32:20,938 SECOND PATIENT, THIS VERY LONG 979 00:32:21,005 --> 00:32:23,007 THING IN LANCET. 980 00:32:23,074 --> 00:32:24,876 AND IT WAS BASICALLY NONSENSE 981 00:32:24,942 --> 00:32:26,110 BECAUSE WE SAID, WELL, WE DON'T 982 00:32:26,177 --> 00:32:29,580 KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. 983 00:32:29,647 --> 00:32:30,682 SO IT WASN'T REALLY VERY 984 00:32:30,748 --> 00:32:31,049 HELPFUL. 985 00:32:31,115 --> 00:32:32,483 BUT WITH THE SECOND PATIENT'S 986 00:32:32,550 --> 00:32:34,218 INFORMATION, I THINK WE DO 987 00:32:34,285 --> 00:32:36,054 BELIEVE THAT THIS IS AN 988 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:37,488 ANTIBODY-MEDIATED REJECTION TO 989 00:32:37,555 --> 00:32:40,892 THESE PIG ORGANS. 990 00:32:40,958 --> 00:32:42,860 THERE ARE TWO FORMS OF THIS 991 00:32:42,927 --> 00:32:43,528 ANTIBODY-MEDIATED REJECTION THAT 992 00:32:43,594 --> 00:32:44,495 WE'VE GOT TO CHASE. 993 00:32:44,562 --> 00:32:46,664 ONE IS CALLED CDC AND THAT'S 994 00:32:46,731 --> 00:32:48,900 REALLY FROM COMPLEMENT, RIGHT? 995 00:32:48,966 --> 00:32:50,301 COMPLEMENT GETS DOWN AND PUNCHES 996 00:32:50,368 --> 00:32:52,403 HOLES IN CELLS, AND IT GET DOWN 997 00:32:52,470 --> 00:32:54,038 THERE BECAUSE IT'S STIMULATED BY 998 00:32:54,105 --> 00:32:55,807 SOME ANTIBODIES THAT THEY 999 00:32:55,873 --> 00:32:56,474 RECOGNIZE AND THE COMPLEMENT 1000 00:32:56,541 --> 00:32:58,876 GETS ON IT, SO WE'VE GOT TO 1001 00:32:58,943 --> 00:33:00,678 BLOCK COMPLEMENT BETTER. 1002 00:33:00,745 --> 00:33:03,214 ADCC IS ANOTHER FORM OF 1003 00:33:03,281 --> 00:33:04,115 ANTIBODY-MEDIATED REJECTION, 1004 00:33:04,182 --> 00:33:06,484 WHICH INCLUDES A CYTOTOXIC PIECE 1005 00:33:06,551 --> 00:33:08,486 USUALLY IN THE FORM OF SOMETHING 1006 00:33:08,553 --> 00:33:10,655 CALLED KILLER CELLS OR NK CELLS. 1007 00:33:10,722 --> 00:33:12,090 VERY IMPORTANT IN THE PROCESS. 1008 00:33:12,156 --> 00:33:14,625 AND WE DON'T LIVE IN THIS WORLD 1009 00:33:14,692 --> 00:33:15,793 WITH ALOE TRANSPLANTATION VERY 1010 00:33:15,860 --> 00:33:17,428 OFTEN, SO IT'S KIND OF NEW FOR 1011 00:33:17,495 --> 00:33:18,963 ME AS A HEART TRANSPLANTER. 1012 00:33:19,030 --> 00:33:22,400 OUR KIDNEY COLLEAGUES SEE MORE 1013 00:33:22,467 --> 00:33:24,102 OF THIS BECAUSE MORE OF THEIR 1014 00:33:24,168 --> 00:33:26,104 PATIENTS ARE SENSITIZED TO 1015 00:33:26,170 --> 00:33:28,740 DONORS THAN OURS. 1016 00:33:28,806 --> 00:33:30,808 SO THEY'RE MORE LIKELY TO SEE 1017 00:33:30,875 --> 00:33:31,409 ANTIBODY-MEDIATED REJECTION. 1018 00:33:31,476 --> 00:33:33,978 SO I HAVE A QUIZ. 1019 00:33:34,045 --> 00:33:37,482 I'M GOING TO ASK DR. CARR. 1020 00:33:37,548 --> 00:33:38,916 DR. CARR, THERE ARE FOUR ORGANS 1021 00:33:38,983 --> 00:33:42,720 THAT YOU SEE HERE. 1022 00:33:42,787 --> 00:33:45,156 TWO OF THEM ARE PIG AND TWO ARE 1023 00:33:45,223 --> 00:33:45,456 HUMAN. 1024 00:33:45,523 --> 00:33:47,225 CAN YOU PICK OUT THE BIG VERSUS 1025 00:33:47,291 --> 00:33:51,696 THE HUMAN ORGANS? 1026 00:33:51,763 --> 00:33:53,431 >> I'LL GO WITH TOP AND LEFT. 1027 00:33:53,498 --> 00:33:54,866 >> TOP AND LEFT IS A PIG. 1028 00:33:54,932 --> 00:33:57,602 AND THAT'S WHY DR. CARR IS MY 1029 00:33:57,668 --> 00:34:00,338 FRIEND, BECAUSE HE NEVER MAKES A 1030 00:34:00,405 --> 00:34:00,772 MISTAKE. 1031 00:34:00,838 --> 00:34:01,339 SO HE GOT THAT. 1032 00:34:01,406 --> 00:34:03,307 THOSE ARE PIG ORGANS, AND THE 1033 00:34:03,374 --> 00:34:05,943 TOP ORGAN CAME OUT OF A 9-MONTH 1034 00:34:06,010 --> 00:34:10,982 SURVIVOR IN THE LABORATORY OF AN 1035 00:34:11,048 --> 00:34:12,383 ORTHOTOPIC PIG TO BABOON 1036 00:34:12,450 --> 00:34:13,251 TRANSPLANT. 1037 00:34:13,317 --> 00:34:15,019 AND THAT ANIMAL WAS TAKEN FROM 1038 00:34:15,086 --> 00:34:16,754 US, WE THINK FROM A VIRAL 1039 00:34:16,821 --> 00:34:18,856 ILLNESS THAT TOOK DOWN THE WHOLE 1040 00:34:18,923 --> 00:34:19,257 COLONY. 1041 00:34:19,323 --> 00:34:22,460 THIS HEART WAS NOT KNOWN TO BE 1042 00:34:22,527 --> 00:34:23,895 REJECTING. 1043 00:34:23,961 --> 00:34:26,531 SO IF YOU ARE A 9-MONTH HEART 1044 00:34:26,597 --> 00:34:28,699 DOING WELL, AND THEY TOOK YOU 1045 00:34:28,766 --> 00:34:29,700 OUT AND THEY CUT YOU, THAT'S 1046 00:34:29,767 --> 00:34:32,003 WHAT YOU SHOULD LOOK LIKE. 1047 00:34:32,069 --> 00:34:34,639 THE OTHER THREE ARE UNITED BY 1048 00:34:34,705 --> 00:34:36,707 SOMETHING VERY STRANGE, RIGHT, 1049 00:34:36,774 --> 00:34:38,142 WHICH IS THIS ENORMOUS SWELLING. 1050 00:34:38,209 --> 00:34:39,544 YOU SEE HOW MUCH THICKER THOSE 1051 00:34:39,610 --> 00:34:40,645 OTHER THREE HEART ARE? 1052 00:34:40,711 --> 00:34:43,047 AND THOSE ARE ALL THREE HEART 1053 00:34:43,114 --> 00:34:44,582 THAT REJECTED. 1054 00:34:44,649 --> 00:34:46,684 A BABOON HEART THAT REJECTED, 1055 00:34:46,751 --> 00:34:49,754 AND OUR TWO HUMAN HEART. 1056 00:34:49,821 --> 00:34:50,521 S. 1057 00:34:50,588 --> 00:34:53,558 TO EMPHASIZE THE DEGREE OF 1058 00:34:53,624 --> 00:34:55,560 SWELLING, LARRY FOSSETT'S HEART 1059 00:34:55,626 --> 00:34:57,094 IS ON THE RIGHT, AND THAT'S OUR 1060 00:34:57,161 --> 00:34:57,628 MOST RECENT PATIENT. 1061 00:34:57,695 --> 00:34:59,831 WHEN WE TOOK IT OUT IN 1062 00:34:59,897 --> 00:35:01,399 PROCUREMENT, IT WAS 273 GRAMS. 1063 00:35:01,466 --> 00:35:05,203 THE NORMAL HUMAN HEART, MALE, IS 1064 00:35:05,269 --> 00:35:07,605 ABOUT 320 TO 340 GRAMS. 1065 00:35:07,672 --> 00:35:09,140 THIS HEART WAS, I TOLD YOU, A 1066 00:35:09,207 --> 00:35:10,141 LITTLE SMALL. 1067 00:35:10,208 --> 00:35:11,642 WE MADE UP FOR THAT BY JUST 1068 00:35:11,709 --> 00:35:13,311 PACING IT A LITTLE BIT FASTER 1069 00:35:13,377 --> 00:35:15,947 AND IT WAS MORE THAN ADEQUATE. 1070 00:35:16,013 --> 00:35:18,783 BUT AT AUTOPSY, YOU KNOW, WITHIN 1071 00:35:18,850 --> 00:35:21,419 40 DAYS OF BEING IMPLANTED, IT'S 1072 00:35:21,486 --> 00:35:22,487 NOW 480 GRAMS, AND THAT'S NOT 1073 00:35:22,553 --> 00:35:24,689 GROWTH. 1074 00:35:24,755 --> 00:35:26,023 THAT'S INFILTRATE, AND MOSTLY 1075 00:35:26,090 --> 00:35:28,226 IT'S WATER AND FIBROUS TISSUE. 1076 00:35:28,292 --> 00:35:29,227 AND THAT'S THE SAME THING THAT 1077 00:35:29,293 --> 00:35:31,062 HAPPENED TO THE OTHER ORGANS CH 1078 00:35:31,128 --> 00:35:32,930 SO WE HAVE A UNIFYING PRINCIPLE 1079 00:35:32,997 --> 00:35:36,267 OF SOMETHING BAD GOING ON, RIG 1080 00:35:36,334 --> 00:35:36,467 RIGHT? 1081 00:35:36,534 --> 00:35:37,869 AND IT AIN'T A VIRUS. 1082 00:35:37,935 --> 00:35:39,737 BECAUSE WE EXCLUDED THE VIRUS 1083 00:35:39,804 --> 00:35:40,938 FROM THE HUMAN AND THE ANIMALS 1084 00:35:41,005 --> 00:35:42,173 DIDN'T HAVE THAT, THAT ANIMAL 1085 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:43,040 DIDN'T HAVE THE VIRUS. 1086 00:35:43,107 --> 00:35:46,410 SO WE GO TO LOOK TO SEE WHAT'S 1087 00:35:46,477 --> 00:35:48,513 GOING ON AND WE TRY TO LACK FOR 1088 00:35:48,579 --> 00:35:49,947 THIS ANTIHUMAN ANTIBODY WHICH WE 1089 00:35:50,014 --> 00:35:52,016 KNOW IS A CENTRAL CORE TO 1090 00:35:52,083 --> 00:35:52,884 ANTIBODY-MEDIATED REJECTION. 1091 00:35:52,950 --> 00:35:54,218 WE COULDN'T COME UP WITH A 1092 00:35:54,285 --> 00:35:55,553 UNIFYING PRINCIPLE BASED UPON 1093 00:35:55,620 --> 00:35:57,855 OUR PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION, I! 1094 00:35:57,922 --> 00:35:59,724 , OUR CROSSMATCH BETWEEN OUR 1095 00:35:59,790 --> 00:36:02,760 PATIENT'S SERUM AND THE PIG 1096 00:36:02,827 --> 00:36:05,730 HEARTS. 1097 00:36:05,796 --> 00:36:07,398 ALL OF US HAVE ANTI-PIG 1098 00:36:07,465 --> 00:36:07,665 ANTIBODY. 1099 00:36:07,732 --> 00:36:09,100 WE DON'T HAVE TO BE FARMERS, WE 1100 00:36:09,166 --> 00:36:10,501 DON'T HAVE TO EAT A LOT OF PIG. 1101 00:36:10,568 --> 00:36:11,969 WE CAN BE VEG TEAR YANS AND 1102 00:36:12,036 --> 00:36:13,371 STILL HAVE THESE ANTIBODIES 1103 00:36:13,437 --> 00:36:16,073 BECAUSE THE ANTIBODIES COME IN 1104 00:36:16,140 --> 00:36:18,309 THE FORM OF LEL SNIPPETS ON 1105 00:36:18,376 --> 00:36:19,977 VIRUSES AND STUFF, SO OVER TIME 1106 00:36:20,044 --> 00:36:21,279 IT ALL GETS MIXED UP OUT THERE 1107 00:36:21,345 --> 00:36:23,347 AND IT GETS INTO OUR GI TRACT 1108 00:36:23,414 --> 00:36:25,116 PROBABLY AND THAT'S HOW WE GET 1109 00:36:25,182 --> 00:36:25,416 SENSITIZED. 1110 00:36:25,483 --> 00:36:28,753 AND THERE'S MORE OR LESS OF IT, 1111 00:36:28,819 --> 00:36:30,288 I THINK IT'S MORE RANDOM THAN IT 1112 00:36:30,354 --> 00:36:32,056 IS PURPOSEFUL. 1113 00:36:32,123 --> 00:36:33,224 SO TWO PEOPLE NEXT TO EACH OTHER 1114 00:36:33,291 --> 00:36:34,358 MAY HAVE VERY DIFFERENT LEVELS 1115 00:36:34,425 --> 00:36:35,426 AND IT WOULD BE BEST FOR US TO 1116 00:36:35,493 --> 00:36:36,794 HAVE THE LOWEST LEVEL POSSIBLE 1117 00:36:36,861 --> 00:36:39,263 ON A PATIENT, RIGHT? 1118 00:36:39,330 --> 00:36:40,598 CERTAINLY AS WE BEGIN TO RAMP UP 1119 00:36:40,665 --> 00:36:42,867 OUR UNDERSTANDING, WE DON'T WANT 1120 00:36:42,934 --> 00:36:44,535 TO NECESSARILY GET UP TO THE 1121 00:36:44,602 --> 00:36:46,304 PLATE AGAINST A STRIKEOUT 1122 00:36:46,370 --> 00:36:47,505 PITCHER, RIGHT? 1123 00:36:47,572 --> 00:36:49,040 WE WOULD PREFER TO HAVE LOW 1124 00:36:49,106 --> 00:36:52,310 ANTIBODIES TO DEAL WITH. 1125 00:36:52,376 --> 00:36:54,378 THE ANTIBODIES IN THE FIRST 1126 00:36:54,445 --> 00:36:55,546 PATIENT SHOWN HERE, KIND OF 1127 00:36:55,613 --> 00:36:58,015 INTERESTING, WE GOT A SPIKE. 1128 00:36:58,082 --> 00:36:59,216 SECOND PATIENT, WE DIDN'T SEE 1129 00:36:59,283 --> 00:37:01,752 THAT SPIKE, WHICH IS 1130 00:37:01,819 --> 00:37:02,053 INTERESTING. 1131 00:37:02,119 --> 00:37:03,387 IN SPITE OF HAVINGS WHAT WE'RE 1132 00:37:03,454 --> 00:37:06,757 NOW DECLARING ANTIBODY MEDIATE D 1133 00:37:06,824 --> 00:37:07,758 REJECTION, WE COULDN'T DETECT IT 1134 00:37:07,825 --> 00:37:09,193 LOOKING AT THE HUMAN ANTIBODIES. 1135 00:37:09,260 --> 00:37:12,029 NONE OF THESE PATIENTS HAD 1136 00:37:12,096 --> 00:37:14,131 CYTOTOXICITY TO THEIR DONOR 1137 00:37:14,198 --> 00:37:14,799 ORGAN. 1138 00:37:14,865 --> 00:37:17,535 SO NOT ONLY DID THEY NOT HAVE 1139 00:37:17,602 --> 00:37:19,070 HIGH ANTIBODIES, THOSE 1140 00:37:19,136 --> 00:37:22,239 ANTIBODIES DIDN'T LYSE THE CELLS 1141 00:37:22,306 --> 00:37:24,308 OF THE PIG HEART IN CULTURE WHEN 1142 00:37:24,375 --> 00:37:27,712 WE ADDED COMPLEMENT. 1143 00:37:27,778 --> 00:37:29,814 SO THAT'S LIKE A GOLD STANDARD 1144 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:31,349 IN ALLOTRANSPLANTATION AND YOU 1145 00:37:31,415 --> 00:37:32,883 ALWAYS TRY TO ACHIEVE THAT. 1146 00:37:32,950 --> 00:37:34,518 SO WE WERE IN GOOD HIGH GROUND 1147 00:37:34,585 --> 00:37:37,254 IN SELECTING THESE PIGS FOR 1148 00:37:37,321 --> 00:37:38,255 THESE PATIENTS, AND YET WE 1149 00:37:38,322 --> 00:37:39,624 FAILED, AND WE THINK IT WAS 1150 00:37:39,690 --> 00:37:39,890 ANTIBODY. 1151 00:37:39,957 --> 00:37:43,928 SO THERE'S MORE TO LEARN. 1152 00:37:43,995 --> 00:37:44,729 IMMUNE SUPPRESSION IS 1153 00:37:44,795 --> 00:37:46,998 COMPLICATED AND I THINK -- LET'S 1154 00:37:47,064 --> 00:37:50,635 BLOW THROUGH THAT. 1155 00:37:50,701 --> 00:37:51,936 THE IMMUNE SUPPRESSION, THE KEY 1156 00:37:52,003 --> 00:37:53,270 PART OF THIS AGAIN GOING BACK TO 1157 00:37:53,337 --> 00:37:56,540 THE NIH WORLD IS ACCESSORY 1158 00:37:56,607 --> 00:37:57,842 PATHWAY BLOCKADE, AND WE COULD 1159 00:37:57,908 --> 00:37:59,644 BLOCK IT ONE OF TWO WAYS, EITHER 1160 00:37:59,710 --> 00:38:01,512 THE LIGAND OR THE RECEPTOR OF 1161 00:38:01,579 --> 00:38:04,348 THAT, AND THAT'S -- THE RECEPTOR 1162 00:38:04,415 --> 00:38:08,085 IS CD40 AND THE LIGAND IS 154. 1163 00:38:08,152 --> 00:38:09,820 SO THE TOP DRUG IS THE MOST 1164 00:38:09,887 --> 00:38:11,689 RECENT DRUG WE USED, AND IT'S 1165 00:38:11,756 --> 00:38:13,891 BEEN USED IN HUMANS BUT NEVER IN 1166 00:38:13,958 --> 00:38:15,960 A TRANSPLANT SETTING, PER SE. 1167 00:38:16,027 --> 00:38:19,997 THE FIRST DRUG WE USED IN THE 1168 00:38:20,064 --> 00:38:20,898 LOWER PANEL HAD NEVER BEEN USED 1169 00:38:20,965 --> 00:38:23,734 IN A HUMAN, AND IT WAS GOING TO 1170 00:38:23,801 --> 00:38:25,603 BE LIKE -- IT WAS GOING TO BE 1171 00:38:25,670 --> 00:38:26,070 OUR TANK. 1172 00:38:26,137 --> 00:38:27,171 THAT'S WHAT WE WERE COUNTING ON 1173 00:38:27,238 --> 00:38:28,606 TO WORK FOR US, BECAUSE, AGAIN, 1174 00:38:28,673 --> 00:38:30,241 GOING BACK TO OUR NON-HUMAN 1175 00:38:30,307 --> 00:38:31,342 PRIMATE WORK, WE HAVE TO 1176 00:38:31,409 --> 00:38:35,479 BLOCKADE THAT. 1177 00:38:35,546 --> 00:38:37,214 AND YOU NEED A HUMAN DRUG THAT 1178 00:38:37,281 --> 00:38:38,015 WILL DO IT. 1179 00:38:38,082 --> 00:38:41,185 IN OUR BA BOB WORK, WE HAVE ONLY 1180 00:38:41,252 --> 00:38:43,254 BABOON-EFFECTIVE ANTIBODY TO TRY 1181 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,356 CD40 BLOCKADE. 1182 00:38:45,423 --> 00:38:46,557 SO NOT ONLY HAD WE NOT ANY 1183 00:38:46,624 --> 00:38:47,858 EXPERIENCE WITH THESE DRUGS, WE 1184 00:38:47,925 --> 00:38:49,627 HAD TO SEND OUT THE BLOOD LEVELS 1185 00:38:49,694 --> 00:38:52,963 TO KNOW WHERE WE WERE, BECAUSE 1186 00:38:53,030 --> 00:38:54,632 WE DIDN'T HAVE PK CURVES ON ANY 1187 00:38:54,699 --> 00:38:56,267 OF THESE DRUGS AND WE WERE JUST 1188 00:38:56,333 --> 00:38:57,268 GOING BY SEAT OF PANTS IN TERMS 1189 00:38:57,334 --> 00:39:00,104 OF WHEN THE DRUG WAS TOTALLY 1190 00:39:00,171 --> 00:39:03,007 COVERING THE RECEPTORS. 1191 00:39:03,074 --> 00:39:04,575 SO IT WAS OUR BEST GUESSTIMATE. 1192 00:39:04,642 --> 00:39:05,910 DID WE DO A GOOD JOB? 1193 00:39:05,976 --> 00:39:06,877 WE'RE ALL OVER THE PLACE HERE, 1194 00:39:06,944 --> 00:39:07,244 RIGHT? 1195 00:39:07,311 --> 00:39:08,913 AND THE LITTLE DOTTED LINE ON 1196 00:39:08,979 --> 00:39:13,484 THE BOTTOM ONE WAS OUR TARGET. 1197 00:39:13,551 --> 00:39:14,685 WE HOPE TO ACHIEVE ABOVE THAT 1198 00:39:14,752 --> 00:39:16,120 DOTTED LINE, AND YOU CAN SEE 1199 00:39:16,187 --> 00:39:17,088 PROBABLY 30% OF THE TIME, WE 1200 00:39:17,154 --> 00:39:20,524 WEWERE BELOW IT. 1201 00:39:20,591 --> 00:39:22,259 THE TOP DRUG NEEDED TO BE ABOVE 1202 00:39:22,326 --> 00:39:23,360 500 AND YOU CAN SEE THERE WAS 1203 00:39:23,427 --> 00:39:24,495 SOME TIME WHEN, IN FACT, WE 1204 00:39:24,562 --> 00:39:28,532 WEREN'T THERE. 1205 00:39:28,599 --> 00:39:29,834 THIS MAY BE MORE COMPLICATED 1206 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:32,536 THAN I CHOOSE TO GO INTO, BUT 1207 00:39:32,603 --> 00:39:34,071 I'M GOING TO TRY JUST BRIEFLY TO 1208 00:39:34,138 --> 00:39:35,673 TELL YOU THAT -- REMEMBER I SAID 1209 00:39:35,740 --> 00:39:41,212 THE WHOLE STORY ISN IS THAT ANTY 1210 00:39:41,278 --> 00:39:42,346 COMPLEMENT IS REALLY IMPORTANT. 1211 00:39:42,413 --> 00:39:43,447 BECAUSE IT'S NOT ONLY REJECTION 1212 00:39:43,514 --> 00:39:45,716 BUT IT'S ALSO THIS COMPLEMENT 1213 00:39:45,783 --> 00:39:46,751 EFFECT OF REJECTION AND THEY GO 1214 00:39:46,817 --> 00:39:47,752 HAND IN HAND. 1215 00:39:47,818 --> 00:39:49,720 WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH A GROUP 1216 00:39:49,787 --> 00:39:55,593 FROM JOHNS HOPKINS, DR. BR 1217 00:39:55,659 --> 00:39:57,361 DR. BROADSKY'S LAB AND MICHAEL 1218 00:39:57,428 --> 00:39:58,829 COLE UP THERE, THEY HAVE A TEST, 1219 00:39:58,896 --> 00:40:00,397 A VARIANT OF SOMETHING CALLED A 1220 00:40:00,464 --> 00:40:01,699 HAM TEST WHERE YOU CAN ADD 1221 00:40:01,766 --> 00:40:05,636 COMPLEMENT TO SERUM AND YOU CAN 1222 00:40:05,703 --> 00:40:08,372 TELL WHETHER OR NOT THAT SERUM 1223 00:40:08,439 --> 00:40:10,741 IS BLOCKED. 1224 00:40:10,808 --> 00:40:13,077 YOU CAN HAVE A DRUG IN THAT 1225 00:40:13,144 --> 00:40:14,512 SERUM THAT'S BLOCKING THE 1226 00:40:14,578 --> 00:40:16,680 ACTIVATION OF THE COMPLEMENT. 1227 00:40:16,747 --> 00:40:19,183 AND IN THESE PARTICULAR 1228 00:40:19,250 --> 00:40:22,119 EXAMPLES, WE HAD BERINERT, WHICH 1229 00:40:22,186 --> 00:40:24,755 WAS OUR GO-TO ANTICOMPLEMENT 1230 00:40:24,822 --> 00:40:27,158 DRUG WITH IS A LOUSY 1231 00:40:27,224 --> 00:40:28,025 ANTICOMPLEMENT DRUG BY THE WAY 1232 00:40:28,092 --> 00:40:29,226 BUT IT'S WHAT WE HAD, AND THEN 1233 00:40:29,293 --> 00:40:33,397 WE ADDED A SECOND DRUG, 1234 00:40:33,464 --> 00:40:34,398 ECLUZIMAB, WHICH WAS A LOT 1235 00:40:34,465 --> 00:40:34,632 BETTER. 1236 00:40:34,698 --> 00:40:37,601 YOU CAN SEE BIOLUMINESCENCE HAS 1237 00:40:37,668 --> 00:40:40,871 INCREASED WHEN WE ADDED THE 1238 00:40:40,938 --> 00:40:41,972 ECLUZIMAB AS OPPOSED TO JUST 1239 00:40:42,039 --> 00:40:43,841 HAVING THE BERINERT. 1240 00:40:43,908 --> 00:40:45,509 AND THE BLUE AND KIND OF BROWN 1241 00:40:45,576 --> 00:40:47,044 LEVELS ARE TWO DIFFERENT CLASSES 1242 00:40:47,111 --> 00:40:49,346 OF CELLS THAT ARE RELATIVELY 1243 00:40:49,413 --> 00:40:51,782 MORE OR LESS SENSITIVE TO 1244 00:40:51,849 --> 00:40:55,719 COMPLEMENT KILLING. 1245 00:40:55,786 --> 00:40:56,821 SO IN THE MOST SENSITIVE, YOU 1246 00:40:56,887 --> 00:40:58,823 CAN SEE WE WERE ABLE TO MAINTAIN 1247 00:40:58,889 --> 00:41:02,626 SURVIVAL WHEN WE ADDED THE TWO 1248 00:41:02,693 --> 00:41:03,861 COMPLEMENTS TOGETHER TO BLOCK 1249 00:41:03,928 --> 00:41:09,533 THAT PATHWAY. 1250 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,936 SO WE LEARNED A LOT. 1251 00:41:12,002 --> 00:41:15,673 THIS IS THE FIRST EXAMPLE IN THE 1252 00:41:15,739 --> 00:41:17,408 XENOTHERAPY WHERE WE'RE GETTING 1253 00:41:17,474 --> 00:41:19,610 FEEDBACK AS TO WHETHER OR NOT 1254 00:41:19,677 --> 00:41:21,846 WE'RE GIVING ENOUGH DRUG OR 1255 00:41:21,912 --> 00:41:23,347 ENOUGH DRUG THAT'S EFFECTIVE. 1256 00:41:23,414 --> 00:41:24,248 BECAUSE EVERYTHING ELSE WE GIVE 1257 00:41:24,315 --> 00:41:30,487 IS JUST BY SPECULATION, RIGHT? 1258 00:41:30,554 --> 00:41:31,856 CELL-FREE DNA IS A WONDERFUL 1259 00:41:31,922 --> 00:41:34,658 THING AND I KNOW IN ARE REALLY 1260 00:41:34,725 --> 00:41:37,428 GOOD RESEARCH GOING ON WITH 1261 00:41:37,494 --> 00:41:39,196 CELL-FREE DNA AND ALLO WORLD, 1262 00:41:39,263 --> 00:41:41,999 IT'S REALLY GOOD IN THE XENO 1263 00:41:42,066 --> 00:41:43,634 WORLD AS WELL. 1264 00:41:43,701 --> 00:41:45,002 THIS PARTICULAR GRAPH, I SIMPLY 1265 00:41:45,069 --> 00:41:47,071 SHOW YOU, THIS IS FROM CARIUS. 1266 00:41:47,137 --> 00:41:48,539 YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE TWO GRAPHS 1267 00:41:48,606 --> 00:41:49,640 HERE. 1268 00:41:49,707 --> 00:41:51,475 JUST LOOK AT THE GREEN AND THE 1269 00:41:51,542 --> 00:41:53,677 BROWN, BECAUSE THE GREEN IS 1270 00:41:53,744 --> 00:41:56,313 HUMAN CELL-FREE DNA WHICH IS 1271 00:41:56,380 --> 00:42:01,785 DETECTED IN THE BLOOD. 1272 00:42:01,852 --> 00:42:04,622 IN THE SAME PATIENT, YOU'RE NOW 1273 00:42:04,688 --> 00:42:06,056 SEEING PIG DNA, RIGHT? 1274 00:42:06,123 --> 00:42:08,058 HOW DID THAT PIG DNA GET THERE? 1275 00:42:08,125 --> 00:42:09,293 IT HAS TO COME FROM THE HEART, 1276 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:09,693 RIGHT? 1277 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,528 AND WHEN THE HEART IS INJURED, 1278 00:42:11,595 --> 00:42:13,464 IT GIVES UP MORE OF ITS DNA. 1279 00:42:13,530 --> 00:42:16,300 SO IT'S A SURROGATE FOR MAYBE 1280 00:42:16,367 --> 00:42:20,070 HEARTHEART ENZYME, IF YOU WISH,T 1281 00:42:20,137 --> 00:42:23,207 MORE SENSITIVE. 1282 00:42:23,274 --> 00:42:24,108 AND THERE ARE DIFFERENT SCALES 1283 00:42:24,174 --> 00:42:25,376 HERE FOR BOTH THE PORCINE AND 1284 00:42:25,442 --> 00:42:26,410 THE HUMAN, BUT IT IS INTERESTING 1285 00:42:26,477 --> 00:42:27,978 THAT WHEN THE PIG HEART GOT IN 1286 00:42:28,045 --> 00:42:29,713 TROUBLE, SO DID THE HUMAN. 1287 00:42:29,780 --> 00:42:31,048 THERE'S MORE HUMAN DNA BEING 1288 00:42:31,115 --> 00:42:32,383 RELEASED, RIGHT, SO END ORGAN 1289 00:42:32,449 --> 00:42:36,253 DAMAGE. 1290 00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:37,922 THIS WAS A EUREKA MOMENT FOR ME 1291 00:42:37,988 --> 00:42:38,255 TOO. 1292 00:42:38,322 --> 00:42:40,557 IN OUR FIRST PATIENT, WE WERE 1293 00:42:40,624 --> 00:42:42,326 MEASURING ALL THIS STUFF AND ONE 1294 00:42:42,393 --> 00:42:43,727 OF THE STUFFS THAT WE WERE 1295 00:42:43,794 --> 00:42:45,729 MEASURING WAS THE MICROBIAL 1296 00:42:45,796 --> 00:42:47,598 CELL-FREE DNA. 1297 00:42:47,665 --> 00:42:49,767 AND INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR YOUR 1298 00:42:49,833 --> 00:42:51,001 BLOOD CULTURES TO COME BACK 1299 00:42:51,068 --> 00:42:53,404 WHICH WERE SURVEILLANCE BASED, 1300 00:42:53,470 --> 00:42:54,738 RIGHT, AND THREE DAYS LATER YOU 1301 00:42:54,805 --> 00:42:56,640 GOT A NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE, ALL 1302 00:42:56,707 --> 00:42:59,109 OF A SUDDEN WITHIN BASICALLY 12 1303 00:42:59,176 --> 00:43:00,377 HOURS, WE'RE GETTING REPORTS 1304 00:43:00,444 --> 00:43:01,879 BACK THAT YOU HAVE THIS 1305 00:43:01,946 --> 00:43:03,647 BACTERIA, THIS BACTERIA AT THIS 1306 00:43:03,714 --> 00:43:07,484 LEVEL IN YOUR BLOOD. 1307 00:43:07,551 --> 00:43:09,687 USING BACTERIAL BASED CELL-FREE 1308 00:43:09,753 --> 00:43:11,355 DNA, IT IS REALLY COOL. 1309 00:43:11,422 --> 00:43:13,324 IT IS THE CELL CULTURE, THE 1310 00:43:13,390 --> 00:43:14,959 BLOOD CULTURE OF THE FUTURE, AND 1311 00:43:15,025 --> 00:43:16,694 WE WILL ALL USE THIS. 1312 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:18,062 SOME PEOPLE ALREADY USE IT BUT I 1313 00:43:18,128 --> 00:43:19,029 HAVE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE. 1314 00:43:19,096 --> 00:43:23,834 THAT'S HOW WE CAUGHT NOT ONLY 1315 00:43:23,901 --> 00:43:25,169 THE PRESENCE OF THESE BUGS BUT 1316 00:43:25,235 --> 00:43:26,403 ALSO THAT IMPORTANT VIRUS AS I 1317 00:43:26,470 --> 00:43:28,172 MENTIONED TO YOU EARLIER. 1318 00:43:28,238 --> 00:43:29,440 PRETTY NEAT, RIGHT? 1319 00:43:29,506 --> 00:43:31,442 SO THERE'S A LOT OF VELCRO, I 1320 00:43:31,508 --> 00:43:33,210 SAID EARLIER, A LOT OF STUFF 1321 00:43:33,277 --> 00:43:34,945 FALLING OUT OF THIS PROGRAM IN 1322 00:43:35,012 --> 00:43:35,846 XENO THAT'S GOING TO AFFECT ALL 1323 00:43:35,913 --> 00:43:37,281 OF US, BECAUSE WE'RE USING IT 1324 00:43:37,348 --> 00:43:38,816 NOW AND, HEY, MAYBE WE CAN USE 1325 00:43:38,882 --> 00:43:40,718 THAT IN ALLO OR MAYBE WE CAN USE 1326 00:43:40,784 --> 00:43:41,819 IT FOR SOMETHING ELSE. 1327 00:43:41,885 --> 00:43:45,990 IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT SCIENCE. 1328 00:43:46,056 --> 00:43:47,191 THIS LAST PATIENT, WE GOT THIS 1329 00:43:47,257 --> 00:43:47,391 BLIP. 1330 00:43:47,458 --> 00:43:49,393 I MEAN, WE'RE USED TO NOW BEING 1331 00:43:49,460 --> 00:43:51,261 SURPRISED WHAT THEY FIND. 1332 00:43:51,328 --> 00:43:53,530 WE FOUND LEGIONELLA. 1333 00:43:53,597 --> 00:43:55,265 OOPS, WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? 1334 00:43:55,332 --> 00:43:56,033 WE WENT NUTS. 1335 00:43:56,100 --> 00:43:56,800 IT WENT RIGHT AWAY. 1336 00:43:56,867 --> 00:43:58,135 WE TREATED IT, IT WENT RIGHT 1337 00:43:58,202 --> 00:43:58,335 AWAY. 1338 00:43:58,402 --> 00:44:01,739 SO IT WASN'T LIKE HE HAD 1339 00:44:01,805 --> 00:44:03,507 LEGIONELLA, HE HAD BEEN NEGATIVE 1340 00:44:03,574 --> 00:44:08,879 PRE-O -OP. 1341 00:44:08,946 --> 00:44:10,647 YOU CAN SEE IT'S WITHIN 7 DAYS. 1342 00:44:10,714 --> 00:44:12,416 THEY WENT BACK AND CULTURED 1343 00:44:12,483 --> 00:44:13,350 EVERYTHING, THEY EVEN CULTURED 1344 00:44:13,417 --> 00:44:14,818 OUR LAB WHERE THEY TOOK THE 1345 00:44:14,885 --> 00:44:15,486 HEART OUT. 1346 00:44:15,552 --> 00:44:18,355 GUESS WHERE THEY FOUND THE 1347 00:44:18,422 --> 00:44:18,989 LEGIONELLA? 1348 00:44:19,056 --> 00:44:22,059 IN HIS O.R. 1349 00:44:22,126 --> 00:44:24,728 THANOBODY COULD GO IN THE O.R., 1350 00:44:24,795 --> 00:44:25,729 JUST ME AND SOMEBODY ELSE, WE 1351 00:44:25,796 --> 00:44:27,464 HAD TO WASH 12 TIMES, WE WORE 1352 00:44:27,531 --> 00:44:28,365 THESE SPACESUITS. 1353 00:44:28,432 --> 00:44:30,100 HOW ABOUT THAT? 1354 00:44:30,167 --> 00:44:31,101 LEGIONELLA IN THE O.R. 1355 00:44:31,168 --> 00:44:32,202 YOU'RE THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT KNOW 1356 00:44:32,269 --> 00:44:34,204 THAT PUBLICLY, BY THE WAY. 1357 00:44:34,271 --> 00:44:37,274 AND FINALLY, HOW ABOUT THESE? 1358 00:44:37,341 --> 00:44:40,544 THIS IS ANOTHER DEGREE OF 1359 00:44:40,611 --> 00:44:41,879 CELL-FREE DNA BUT THIS IS WHAT 1360 00:44:41,945 --> 00:44:46,617 THEY CALL FRAGMENTOMICS, WHERE 1361 00:44:46,683 --> 00:44:47,785 THEY CAN ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND 1362 00:44:47,851 --> 00:44:50,554 WHAT THAT REMNANT OF PIG DNA IS 1363 00:44:50,621 --> 00:44:52,189 COMING FROM, WHAT CELL OF 1364 00:44:52,256 --> 00:44:52,423 ORIGIN. 1365 00:44:52,489 --> 00:44:55,192 AND YOU CAN SEE THAT IN YELLOW 1366 00:44:55,259 --> 00:44:59,029 HERE, ON DAY 30, WE ARE SPIKING 1367 00:44:59,096 --> 00:45:00,230 ENDOTHELIAL CELL FRAGMENTS OF 1368 00:45:00,297 --> 00:45:02,866 DNA. 1369 00:45:02,933 --> 00:45:04,635 SO NOT ONLY DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU 1370 00:45:04,701 --> 00:45:06,804 GOT PIG STUFF IN THE BLOOD BAD, 1371 00:45:06,870 --> 00:45:08,138 YOU KNOW WHERE IT'S COMING FROM. 1372 00:45:08,205 --> 00:45:10,240 SO YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO TARGET 1373 00:45:10,307 --> 00:45:12,876 WHETHER THIS IS A T-CELL 1374 00:45:12,943 --> 00:45:14,511 EFFECTIVE THING WHICH WOULD BE 1375 00:45:14,578 --> 00:45:16,814 MORE MYOCARDIAL CELL OR 1376 00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:18,048 ENDOTHELIAL CELL, WHICH WOULD BE 1377 00:45:18,115 --> 00:45:18,282 AMR. 1378 00:45:18,348 --> 00:45:19,416 SO I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE 1379 00:45:19,483 --> 00:45:21,452 ABLE TO USE THESE JEWELS GOING 1380 00:45:21,518 --> 00:45:22,886 FORWARD IN TERMS OF OUR 1381 00:45:22,953 --> 00:45:23,220 DIAGNOSTICS. 1382 00:45:23,287 --> 00:45:25,956 THIS COULD BE A NICE BIOPROBE 1383 00:45:26,023 --> 00:45:26,824 FOR REJECTION, RIGHT? 1384 00:45:26,890 --> 00:45:29,827 WE CAN GET THIS NOW BACK IN 1385 00:45:29,893 --> 00:45:30,794 ABOUT 48 HOURS BUT I SUSPECT 1386 00:45:30,861 --> 00:45:32,429 WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET IT WITHIN 1387 00:45:32,496 --> 00:45:33,130 24. 1388 00:45:33,197 --> 00:45:34,364 PRETTY NEAT, RIGHT? 1389 00:45:34,431 --> 00:45:37,301 YEAH. 1390 00:45:37,367 --> 00:45:37,968 I THINK SO. 1391 00:45:38,035 --> 00:45:41,138 AND THEN THE LAST THING IS, 1392 00:45:41,205 --> 00:45:43,807 THERE'S THIS STUFF THAT THEY CAN 1393 00:45:43,874 --> 00:45:45,642 DO NOW WITH LOOKING AT GENES AND 1394 00:45:45,709 --> 00:45:50,147 GENE ARRAYS CALLED BULK 1395 00:45:50,214 --> 00:45:50,914 TRANSCRIPTOMICS. 1396 00:45:50,981 --> 00:45:51,949 YEAH, I CAN SAY THAT. 1397 00:45:52,015 --> 00:45:53,917 IT'S ALL ABOUT LOOKING AT OUR 1398 00:45:53,984 --> 00:45:55,119 BIOPSY IN A WAY THAT WE NEVER 1399 00:45:55,185 --> 00:45:57,354 WERE ABLE TO BEFORE, AND POOR 1400 00:45:57,421 --> 00:45:58,322 LARRY COULDN'T UNDERSTAND, 1401 00:45:58,388 --> 00:45:58,555 RIGHT? 1402 00:45:58,622 --> 00:46:00,858 HE WAS LOOKING AT THE H & E. 1403 00:46:00,924 --> 00:46:05,262 HERE'S THE GENETIC OUTPUT FROM 1404 00:46:05,329 --> 00:46:05,696 HIS BIOPSY. 1405 00:46:05,762 --> 00:46:08,432 AND THIS IS WHAT THEY CALL 1406 00:46:08,499 --> 00:46:09,500 VOLCANO GRAPHED. 1407 00:46:09,566 --> 00:46:13,036 EVERYTHING TO THE LEFT 1408 00:46:13,103 --> 00:46:15,139 DEMONSTRATES GENES THAT ARE DOWN 1409 00:46:15,205 --> 00:46:15,405 REGULATED. 1410 00:46:15,472 --> 00:46:17,341 EVERYTHING TO THE RIGHT IS 1411 00:46:17,407 --> 00:46:19,076 UPREGULATED. 1412 00:46:19,143 --> 00:46:20,777 WHEN THE A.I. SOURCE LOOKS AT 1413 00:46:20,844 --> 00:46:23,180 ALL THIS, IT SAYS, OKAY, 1414 00:46:23,247 --> 00:46:24,948 EVERYTHING IS FINE. 1415 00:46:25,015 --> 00:46:28,785 OR, UH-OH, YOU'VE GOT AN IN 1416 00:46:28,852 --> 00:46:32,623 INFECTION IN THE HEART OR YOU'VE 1417 00:46:32,689 --> 00:46:33,991 GOT REJECTION AND IT LOOKS LIKE 1418 00:46:34,057 --> 00:46:35,159 T-CELL REJECTION OR IN OUR CASE, 1419 00:46:35,225 --> 00:46:37,928 IT SAID, UH-OH, ALL OF THESE 1420 00:46:37,995 --> 00:46:42,099 GENES ARE COMPATIBLE WITH ACUTE 1421 00:46:42,166 --> 00:46:44,835 ANTIBODY-MEDIATED REJECTION. 1422 00:46:44,902 --> 00:46:46,937 SO AGAIN, IT'S ALL PART OF THE 1423 00:46:47,004 --> 00:46:48,939 PROCESS OF LEARNING, AND THEN, 1424 00:46:49,006 --> 00:46:51,241 YOU KNOW, WE CAN GET THIS BACK 1425 00:46:51,308 --> 00:46:53,977 IN 36 HOURS. 1426 00:46:54,044 --> 00:46:55,379 SO WE'RE GOING TO USE THESE 1427 00:46:55,445 --> 00:46:58,916 TOOLS TO HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT 1428 00:46:58,982 --> 00:47:00,884 SWITCHES AND TOGGLES TO PULL TO 1429 00:47:00,951 --> 00:47:03,120 REDUCE THIS WHOLE PROCESS OF 1430 00:47:03,187 --> 00:47:03,754 ANTIBODY-MEDIATED REJECTION AS 1431 00:47:03,820 --> 00:47:04,655 WE GO FORWARD. 1432 00:47:04,721 --> 00:47:06,857 AND THIS WAS DONE BY 1433 00:47:06,924 --> 00:47:08,859 DR. ALEXANDER LOUPY, WHO IS IN 1434 00:47:08,926 --> 00:47:09,860 PARIS CURRENTLY BUT HAS SPENT A 1435 00:47:09,927 --> 00:47:11,495 LOT OF TIME IN THE U.S. HERE AND 1436 00:47:11,562 --> 00:47:12,896 ABOUT TO DO THIS. 1437 00:47:12,963 --> 00:47:14,698 IT'S A WONDERFUL GIFT TO US. 1438 00:47:14,765 --> 00:47:16,733 THIS SAME THING WAS FOUND IN THE 1439 00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:18,735 LONG TERM DECEDENT THAT 1440 00:47:18,802 --> 00:47:22,406 DR. MOMONTGOMERY DID. 1441 00:47:22,472 --> 00:47:24,942 HE DID A -- I GUESS IT WAS A 1442 00:47:25,008 --> 00:47:28,445 62-DAY DECEDENT KID NIGH 1443 00:47:28,512 --> 00:47:34,151 IMP -- KIDNEYTRANSPLANT. 1444 00:47:34,218 --> 00:47:36,019 THEY HAD THE KIDNEY ON PHORESIS 1445 00:47:36,086 --> 00:47:39,456 TO TAKE THE ANTIBODIES OUT. 1446 00:47:39,523 --> 00:47:40,991 SO WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO 1447 00:47:41,058 --> 00:47:42,793 ROAD-TEST A BETTER IMMUNE 1448 00:47:42,859 --> 00:47:43,660 SUPPRESSIVE PROTOCOL. 1449 00:47:43,727 --> 00:47:44,761 THAT'S WHY I DIDN'T SPEND A LOT 1450 00:47:44,828 --> 00:47:46,096 OF TIME ON THE OLD PROTOCOL 1451 00:47:46,163 --> 00:47:47,064 BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT WE'VE GOT 1452 00:47:47,130 --> 00:47:47,864 TO DO. 1453 00:47:47,931 --> 00:47:51,468 WE HAVE TO BRING OUR STANDARD B 1454 00:47:51,535 --> 00:47:53,870 CELLS DOWN BECAUSE B CELLS 1455 00:47:53,937 --> 00:47:56,873 BECOME PLASMA CELLS, AND PLASMA 1456 00:47:56,940 --> 00:47:58,976 CELLS MAKE ANTIBODIES. 1457 00:47:59,042 --> 00:48:00,477 WE'RE GOING TO GIVE ATG, WHICH 1458 00:48:00,544 --> 00:48:01,612 HAS BEEN PART OF THE PROCESS, 1459 00:48:01,678 --> 00:48:04,715 AND THAT'S TO HELP REGULATE THE 1460 00:48:04,781 --> 00:48:06,149 T LYMPHOCYTES AWAY. 1461 00:48:06,216 --> 00:48:07,951 WE STILL NEED TO CONTROL T 1462 00:48:08,018 --> 00:48:08,719 LYMPHOCYTES EVEN THOUGH WE 1463 00:48:08,785 --> 00:48:10,087 HAVEN'T SEEN CELL MEDIATED 1464 00:48:10,153 --> 00:48:10,354 REJECTION. 1465 00:48:10,420 --> 00:48:13,323 WE'RE GOING TO USE TAC AGAIN TO 1466 00:48:13,390 --> 00:48:16,860 HELP ATG OVER THE LONG HAUL 1467 00:48:16,927 --> 00:48:18,395 SUPPORT THE DYSREGULATION OF 1468 00:48:18,462 --> 00:48:18,629 T-CELL. 1469 00:48:18,695 --> 00:48:22,399 WE'RE GOING TO REMOVE IGG 1470 00:48:22,466 --> 00:48:24,134 PRE-OP, AND IG M & I GE, AND 1471 00:48:24,201 --> 00:48:28,772 WE'RE GOING TO USE THERMABSORB, 1472 00:48:28,839 --> 00:48:30,641 WHICH IS A COLUMN CAN HAVE THE 1473 00:48:30,707 --> 00:48:31,842 PATIENT'S BLOOD RUN THROUGH AND 1474 00:48:31,908 --> 00:48:37,247 IT SELECTIVELY REMOVES AGM, AGG. 1475 00:48:37,314 --> 00:48:39,316 IT'S PROBABLY NOT THE BEST THING 1476 00:48:39,383 --> 00:48:40,784 FOR THE PATIENT INFECTION-WISE, 1477 00:48:40,851 --> 00:48:42,953 BUT WE CAN DRIVE ANY EXISTING 1478 00:48:43,020 --> 00:48:43,954 ANTIBODIES EVEN AT LOW LEVEL 1479 00:48:44,021 --> 00:48:46,490 THAT WE THINK WERE OKAY BUT 1480 00:48:46,556 --> 00:48:49,059 WEREN'T, WE CAN DRIVE THOSE DOWN 1481 00:48:49,126 --> 00:48:50,494 TO ZERO SO WE CAN GET A REALLY 1482 00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:51,895 GOOD START WITH THIS ORGAN 1483 00:48:51,962 --> 00:48:53,163 BEFORE MAYBE REJECTION OCCURS. 1484 00:48:53,230 --> 00:48:54,364 AND WHILE WE DO THAT, WE'RE ALSO 1485 00:48:54,431 --> 00:48:55,732 GOING TO PUT DOWN PRESSURE ON 1486 00:48:55,799 --> 00:48:57,467 THE PLASMA CELL, WHICH IS THE 1487 00:48:57,534 --> 00:49:00,070 PART OF THE B CELL POPULATION 1488 00:49:00,137 --> 00:49:02,606 THAT EVOLVES TO CREATE THE 1489 00:49:02,673 --> 00:49:04,241 ANTIBODIES, SO WE'RE GOING TO 1490 00:49:04,308 --> 00:49:06,476 TAKE THE B CELLS AND WHACK THEM 1491 00:49:06,543 --> 00:49:07,911 DOWN, BUT THE PLASMA CELLS ARE 1492 00:49:07,978 --> 00:49:11,348 RESISTANT TO THAT DRUG THAT WE 1493 00:49:11,415 --> 00:49:12,382 WHACKED THE MOTHERLOAD DOWN 1494 00:49:12,449 --> 00:49:12,582 WITH. 1495 00:49:12,649 --> 00:49:14,084 SO THE PLASMA CELLS KEEP FILLING 1496 00:49:14,151 --> 00:49:15,919 UP THE WELL, EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE 1497 00:49:15,986 --> 00:49:17,387 PULLING THOSE ANTIBODIES OUT. 1498 00:49:17,454 --> 00:49:18,722 SO WE HAVE TO DO THOSE TWO 1499 00:49:18,789 --> 00:49:19,056 THINGS. 1500 00:49:19,122 --> 00:49:21,358 WE ALSO HAVE TO BE COGNIZANT OF 1501 00:49:21,425 --> 00:49:23,226 THE FACT THAT COMPLEMENT IS VERY 1502 00:49:23,293 --> 00:49:24,861 MUCH PART OF THE STORY, AND WE 1503 00:49:24,928 --> 00:49:26,730 HAD LOTS OF COMPLEMENT IN OUR 1504 00:49:26,797 --> 00:49:27,064 PATIENTS. 1505 00:49:27,130 --> 00:49:29,199 WE'VE GOT TO DO A BETTER JOB 1506 00:49:29,266 --> 00:49:31,401 BLOCKING THE COMPLEMENT, AND WE 1507 00:49:31,468 --> 00:49:35,672 HAVE A PRESCRIPTION FOR THAT. 1508 00:49:35,739 --> 00:49:36,973 WE'RE PROBABLY GOING TO STOP AT 1509 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:38,642 THAT, BUT IF WE HAVE TO GIVE 1510 00:49:38,709 --> 00:49:44,681 BLOOD PRODUCTS, WE WILL USE 1511 00:49:44,748 --> 00:49:47,918 IDES, WHICH IS A DRUG THAT WILL 1512 00:49:47,984 --> 00:49:49,553 LYSE IGG AND WILL BASICALLY 1513 00:49:49,619 --> 00:49:55,125 ELIMINATE THE TRANSFER OF ANY 1514 00:49:55,192 --> 00:49:56,259 ANTIPIG ANTIBODY FROM AN 1515 00:49:56,326 --> 00:49:56,793 EXTERNAL SOURCE. 1516 00:49:56,860 --> 00:49:58,362 SO WE CAN KILL THAT RIGHT AWAY, 1517 00:49:58,428 --> 00:50:00,864 SO WE CAN STILL GET AWAY WITH 1518 00:50:00,931 --> 00:50:02,899 BLOOD TRANSFUSION IF WE NEED TO. 1519 00:50:02,966 --> 00:50:04,201 I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY WHERE I 1520 00:50:04,267 --> 00:50:09,339 AM WITH THAT. 1521 00:50:09,406 --> 00:50:10,941 SO LET'S GET BACK TO THE 1522 00:50:11,007 --> 00:50:11,742 HUMANITY ASPECT OF THIS, AND 1523 00:50:11,808 --> 00:50:14,845 WE'RE JUST ABOUT RIGHT ON TIME. 1524 00:50:14,911 --> 00:50:17,147 DAVE BENNETT, JR. IS SHOWN HERE 1525 00:50:17,214 --> 00:50:19,516 ON THE PATIENT'S LEFT SIDE. 1526 00:50:19,583 --> 00:50:21,051 DAVE WAS ESTRANGED FROM HIS DAD. 1527 00:50:21,118 --> 00:50:24,087 THIS WAS OUR FIRST PATIENT. 1528 00:50:24,154 --> 00:50:26,256 OUR FIRST PATIENT WAS A RASCAL. 1529 00:50:26,323 --> 00:50:27,858 HE WAS DESCRIBED FROM HIS 1530 00:50:27,924 --> 00:50:28,725 CARDIOLOGIST AS THE WORST 1531 00:50:28,792 --> 00:50:32,129 PATIENT HE EVER HAD. 1532 00:50:32,195 --> 00:50:33,497 HE WOULD NEVER DO WHAT HE WAS 1533 00:50:33,563 --> 00:50:34,698 TOLD, NEVER TAKE HIS MEDICINES 1534 00:50:34,765 --> 00:50:35,999 AND HE WOULD JUST COME INTO THE 1535 00:50:36,066 --> 00:50:37,367 EMERGENCY ROOM FOR RESCUE 1536 00:50:37,434 --> 00:50:38,235 TREATMENT. 1537 00:50:38,301 --> 00:50:40,303 THAT WAS ONE OF THE REASONS, 1538 00:50:40,370 --> 00:50:41,204 PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT 1539 00:50:41,271 --> 00:50:42,839 REASON THAT WE COULDN'T GIVE HIM 1540 00:50:42,906 --> 00:50:44,741 A STANDARD ALLO TRANSPLANT, 1541 00:50:44,808 --> 00:50:48,678 BECAUSE HE JUST WOULDN'T HAVE 1542 00:50:48,745 --> 00:50:50,313 ENOUGH COMPLIANCE TO PASS OUR 1543 00:50:50,380 --> 00:50:51,415 TEST. 1544 00:50:51,481 --> 00:50:53,150 WE THOUGHT WE'D GATHER A TEAM 1545 00:50:53,216 --> 00:50:54,951 THAT COULD ENCOURAGE HIM TO TAKE 1546 00:50:55,018 --> 00:50:56,386 THE MEDS SUFFICIENT ENOUGH. 1547 00:50:56,453 --> 00:50:59,022 WE'D DO HOUSE CALLS, WHERE ELSE 1548 00:50:59,089 --> 00:51:00,090 ARE WE GOING TO GET A PATIENT. 1549 00:51:00,157 --> 00:51:01,591 SO WE FIGURED WE'D GO OUT OF OUR 1550 00:51:01,658 --> 00:51:03,126 WAY IN A WAY THAT WE COULDN'T DO 1551 00:51:03,193 --> 00:51:04,961 FOR OUR ALLO PATIENTS IN GENERAL 1552 00:51:05,028 --> 00:51:06,363 TO GIVE HIM AN OPPORTUNITY. 1553 00:51:06,430 --> 00:51:07,664 HE SAYS, DAD'S COLONEL WILL BE 1554 00:51:07,731 --> 00:51:09,433 SOMETHING I WILL NEVER FORGET 1555 00:51:09,499 --> 00:51:10,901 AND ALWAYS CHERISH. 1556 00:51:10,967 --> 00:51:12,536 HE LEFT A LEG SEES FOR US TO 1557 00:51:12,602 --> 00:51:13,503 BUILD FROM BECAUSE HE CHOSE TO 1558 00:51:13,570 --> 00:51:14,504 FIGHT FOR THE FINAL MONTHS OF 1559 00:51:14,571 --> 00:51:15,105 HIS LIFE. 1560 00:51:15,172 --> 00:51:17,307 HE PASSED AWAY FIGHTING FOR 1561 00:51:17,374 --> 00:51:18,375 SCIENCE FOR THE SAKE OF 1562 00:51:18,442 --> 00:51:18,708 HUMANITY. 1563 00:51:18,775 --> 00:51:19,976 YOU KNOW, MY DAD NEVER MADE IT 1564 00:51:20,043 --> 00:51:21,077 OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, BUT HE DID 1565 00:51:21,144 --> 00:51:22,946 MAKE IT INTO HIS ULTIMATE HOME. 1566 00:51:23,013 --> 00:51:25,115 HE FOUGHT HARD FOR THOSE ANGEL 1567 00:51:25,182 --> 00:51:25,615 WINGS. 1568 00:51:25,682 --> 00:51:27,684 AND WITH THE HEART THAT'S INSIDE 1569 00:51:27,751 --> 00:51:29,653 HIM, PIGS TRULY ARE FLYING. 1570 00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:34,090 SO HE SAYS, KEEP IT UP. 1571 00:51:34,157 --> 00:51:35,292 AND THEN I'M GOING TO LEAVE YOU 1572 00:51:35,358 --> 00:51:36,493 WITH THIS ONE. 1573 00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:37,794 AND IF THERE'S A DRY EYE, I WANT 1574 00:51:37,861 --> 00:51:38,962 TO SEE IT. 1575 00:51:39,029 --> 00:51:41,698 THIS IS OUR SECOND PATIENT. 1576 00:51:41,765 --> 00:51:44,334 AND I TOLD YOU THAT WE WERE 1577 00:51:44,401 --> 00:51:45,669 SUFFERING WITH THE SWELLING OF 1578 00:51:45,735 --> 00:51:46,736 HIS HEART TOO AND WE COULDN'T 1579 00:51:46,803 --> 00:51:48,872 REVERSE IT, SO HE WAS ON ECMO. 1580 00:51:48,939 --> 00:51:52,108 WE TREATED HIM AGGRESSIVELY FOR 1581 00:51:52,175 --> 00:51:52,976 ANTIBODY-MEDIATED REJECTION AND 1582 00:51:53,043 --> 00:51:54,411 FAILED TO REVERSE THE PROCESS 1583 00:51:54,478 --> 00:51:56,146 AFTER FIVE DAYS. 1584 00:51:56,213 --> 00:51:57,414 THE PATIENT WAS TIRED AND DIDN'T 1585 00:51:57,481 --> 00:51:59,616 WANT TO GO FORWARD. 1586 00:51:59,683 --> 00:52:00,917 WE THOUGHT MAYBE WE'D LIKE TO GO 1587 00:52:00,984 --> 00:52:02,385 10 DAYS ON ECMO TO SEE IF WE 1588 00:52:02,452 --> 00:52:04,588 COULD TURN IT AROUND, BUT WE 1589 00:52:04,654 --> 00:52:06,990 RESPECTED HIS WISHES, AND HE 1590 00:52:07,057 --> 00:52:08,258 WANTED TO GET OFF THE ECMO AND 1591 00:52:08,325 --> 00:52:09,626 WE KNEW THE MINUTE WE STOPPED 1592 00:52:09,693 --> 00:52:12,162 THE ECMO, THAT HE WOULD CEASE TO 1593 00:52:12,229 --> 00:52:14,831 BE BECAUSE HIS HEART COULDN'T 1594 00:52:14,898 --> 00:52:16,600 KEEP HIM ALIVE. 1595 00:52:16,666 --> 00:52:19,002 AND HE ASKED -- HE HAD A 1596 00:52:19,069 --> 00:52:20,637 TRACHEOSTOMY IF I REMEMBER, AND 1597 00:52:20,704 --> 00:52:24,875 SO HE ASKED FOR A CLIPBOARD, AND 1598 00:52:24,941 --> 00:52:25,842 LIKE PATIENTS, THOSE OF YOU WHO 1599 00:52:25,909 --> 00:52:26,743 HAVE BEEN TAKING CARE OF 1600 00:52:26,810 --> 00:52:27,978 PATIENTS KNOW, THEY WRITE LITTLE 1601 00:52:28,044 --> 00:52:29,412 NOTES, YOU CAN ALMOST NEVER READ 1602 00:52:29,479 --> 00:52:29,846 THEM, RIGHT? 1603 00:52:29,913 --> 00:52:31,147 AND IT TAKES FOREVER AND YOU'RE 1604 00:52:31,214 --> 00:52:32,649 GOING, OH, COME ON, COME ON, 1605 00:52:32,716 --> 00:52:33,283 I'VE GOT TO GO. 1606 00:52:33,350 --> 00:52:35,252 SO WE ALL STOOD THERE WHILE HE 1607 00:52:35,318 --> 00:52:37,320 WROTE THREE LINES. 1608 00:52:37,387 --> 00:52:37,521 RIGHT? 1609 00:52:37,587 --> 00:52:38,922 AND THE FIRST LINE, I THINK I 1610 00:52:38,989 --> 00:52:39,789 CAN READ PRETTY WELL. 1611 00:52:39,856 --> 00:52:41,558 IN FACT, I GOT THEM ALL 1612 00:52:41,625 --> 00:52:42,526 DECIPHERED NOW WITH A LOT OF 1613 00:52:42,592 --> 00:52:44,027 HELP. 1614 00:52:44,094 --> 00:52:47,397 I AM SORRY. 1615 00:52:47,464 --> 00:52:50,133 AND THEN DOT, DOT. 1616 00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:51,334 I TRIED HARD. 1617 00:52:51,401 --> 00:52:53,703 THAT'S WHAT THAT SAYS. 1618 00:52:53,770 --> 00:52:56,039 AND THEN THE LAST LINE WAS THE 1619 00:52:56,106 --> 00:52:56,473 KILLER, RIGHT? 1620 00:52:56,540 --> 00:52:58,241 NOW HE'S IN BED, YOU KNOW, ALL 1621 00:52:58,308 --> 00:52:59,342 THE NURSES ARE IN THE ROOM AND 1622 00:52:59,409 --> 00:53:01,211 THE WHOLE TEAM IS WITH HIM AND A 1623 00:53:01,278 --> 00:53:03,046 LOT OF LOVE GOES INTO THIS. 1624 00:53:03,113 --> 00:53:06,516 AND THEN HE SAYS, AND HE KIND OF 1625 00:53:06,583 --> 00:53:09,486 MOTIONS WITH HIS HAND, HE 1626 00:53:09,553 --> 00:53:10,887 STARTED WITH ME, WHICH WAS VERY 1627 00:53:10,954 --> 00:53:13,623 SAD. 1628 00:53:13,690 --> 00:53:16,226 I LOVE YOU. 1629 00:53:16,293 --> 00:53:17,761 AND THEN HE WAS AT PEACE. 1630 00:53:17,827 --> 00:53:19,729 AND HE DECIDED THAT NOW IT'S 1631 00:53:19,796 --> 00:53:21,097 OKAY, SO WE GAVE HIM A MOMENT 1632 00:53:21,164 --> 00:53:23,300 WITH HIS SPOUSE, AND WE TURNED 1633 00:53:23,366 --> 00:53:25,902 OFF THE MACHINE AND HE DIED 1634 00:53:25,969 --> 00:53:27,103 QUIETLY. 1635 00:53:27,170 --> 00:53:28,705 BUT NOT WITHOUT BEING REMEMBERED 1636 00:53:28,772 --> 00:53:30,874 FOREVER. 1637 00:53:30,941 --> 00:53:31,875 PRETTY NEAT. 1638 00:53:31,942 --> 00:53:34,077 SO THIS IS MY LAST SLIDE. 1639 00:53:34,144 --> 00:53:36,012 AND IT'S KIND OF CUTE. 1640 00:53:36,079 --> 00:53:37,747 WE ARE GROWING, AND THE DONORS 1641 00:53:37,814 --> 00:53:39,149 ARE GROWING TOO. 1642 00:53:39,215 --> 00:53:41,451 AND I THINK WE HAVE A PROCESS, 1643 00:53:41,518 --> 00:53:43,386 IF WE'RE CAREFUL WITH IT, AND 1644 00:53:43,453 --> 00:53:45,789 DELIBERATE, THAT WE CAN WORK 1645 00:53:45,855 --> 00:53:47,424 FROM ONE PATIENT TO ANOTHER TO 1646 00:53:47,490 --> 00:53:49,459 LEARN ENOUGH TO MAKE IT OF 1647 00:53:49,526 --> 00:53:53,029 VALUE, NOT JUST FOR SCIENCE BUT 1648 00:53:53,096 --> 00:53:53,997 OF VALUE TO THE PATIENT. 1649 00:53:54,064 --> 00:53:55,198 REMEMBER WHAT MAKES IT WORTH 1650 00:53:55,265 --> 00:53:57,400 THEIR WHILE IS -- OR WHAT WOULD 1651 00:53:57,467 --> 00:53:58,969 MAKE IT WORTH YOUR WHILE IS 1652 00:53:59,035 --> 00:54:00,103 RELATIVE TO YOUR RISK OF NOT 1653 00:54:00,170 --> 00:54:01,171 HAVING IT AT ALL. 1654 00:54:01,237 --> 00:54:02,772 OUR LAST PATIENT JUST WANTED A 1655 00:54:02,839 --> 00:54:04,407 CUP OF COFFEE ON HIS PORCH IN 1656 00:54:04,474 --> 00:54:06,076 THE FALL WITH HIS WIFE, ONE MORE 1657 00:54:06,142 --> 00:54:07,043 TIME. 1658 00:54:07,110 --> 00:54:08,678 I THOUGHT WE'D GET HIM THERE, 1659 00:54:08,745 --> 00:54:10,914 BUT I WAS SHORT-SIGHTED. 1660 00:54:10,981 --> 00:54:14,117 BUT WE'RE GOING TO GET TO HUMAN 1661 00:54:14,184 --> 00:54:16,353 TRIALS EVENTUALLY, BUT I THINK 1662 00:54:16,419 --> 00:54:18,188 WITH THESE EMERGENCY EXPANDED 1663 00:54:18,254 --> 00:54:19,522 USE PERMISSIONS, PERHAPS WE CAN 1664 00:54:19,589 --> 00:54:20,857 SHARPEN OUR PENCIL A LITTLE BIT 1665 00:54:20,924 --> 00:54:23,059 AND ROAD-TEST BETTER IMMUNE 1666 00:54:23,126 --> 00:54:23,994 SUPPRESSION THAT WE WOULDN'T 1667 00:54:24,060 --> 00:54:25,528 HAVE FORECASTED WAS NECESSARY 1668 00:54:25,595 --> 00:54:26,763 BASED UPON THE NON-HUMAN PRIMATE 1669 00:54:26,830 --> 00:54:28,932 WORK THAT WE HAD DONE. 1670 00:54:28,999 --> 00:54:30,367 SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO ME 1671 00:54:30,433 --> 00:54:35,271 THAT I RECEIVED TEXTS FROM MY 1672 00:54:35,338 --> 00:54:36,539 FRIENDS AND FROM MY COLLEAGUES, 1673 00:54:36,606 --> 00:54:39,309 SOME OF WHOM WERE PRETTY HIGHLY 1674 00:54:39,376 --> 00:54:41,378 PLACED IN THE WORLD OF 1675 00:54:41,444 --> 00:54:44,347 IMMUNOLOGY AND TRANSPLANTATION, 1676 00:54:44,414 --> 00:54:45,382 AND THEY HAVE ALL BEEN 1677 00:54:45,448 --> 00:54:47,283 RELATIVELY ENCOURAGING. 1678 00:54:47,350 --> 00:54:48,885 AND FOR THAT, I'M VERY HUMBLED 1679 00:54:48,952 --> 00:54:50,787 AND YOUR RECEPTION TODAY AND 1680 00:54:50,854 --> 00:54:52,789 KIND ATTENTION TELLS ME YOU'RE 1681 00:54:52,856 --> 00:54:54,758 INTERESTED IN PROBABLY PART OF 1682 00:54:54,824 --> 00:54:55,725 THE CHEERING SECTION. 1683 00:54:55,792 --> 00:54:56,559 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 1684 00:54:56,626 --> 00:54:56,926 THAT'S IT. 1685 00:54:56,993 --> 00:55:07,170 [APPLAUSE] 1686 00:55:08,304 --> 00:55:09,472 >> BART, AS ALWAYS, THANK YOU 1687 00:55:09,539 --> 00:55:12,742 VERY MUCH FOR INSIGHTFUL AND 1688 00:55:12,809 --> 00:55:15,011 ENCOURAGING AND 1689 00:55:15,078 --> 00:55:17,180 THOUGHT-PROVOKING IDEAS. 1690 00:55:17,247 --> 00:55:18,948 AND THE STUDENTS OUT THERE, ONE 1691 00:55:19,015 --> 00:55:19,382 LAST LITTLE THING. 1692 00:55:19,449 --> 00:55:21,084 BART IS AN AMAZING TEACHER. 1693 00:55:21,151 --> 00:55:22,385 HE'S SUCH A GOOD TEACHER OF 1694 00:55:22,452 --> 00:55:24,587 RESIDENTS AND FELLOWS THAT HE 1695 00:55:24,654 --> 00:55:26,056 WON THE TEACHING AWARD AT 1696 00:55:26,122 --> 00:55:27,691 MARYLAND SO MANY TIMES, THEY 1697 00:55:27,757 --> 00:55:29,025 WERE LIKE, WE'RE DONE. 1698 00:55:29,092 --> 00:55:31,528 LIKE THE 14-YEAR WINNER 1699 00:55:31,594 --> 00:55:32,362 CONSECUTIVELY, SO THEY HAD TO 1700 00:55:32,429 --> 00:55:33,897 STOP GIVING HIM THE AWARD, SO 1701 00:55:33,963 --> 00:55:34,664 WHAT DID THEY DO? 1702 00:55:34,731 --> 00:55:35,865 THEY NAMED IT AFTER HIM. 1703 00:55:35,932 --> 00:55:37,233 >> BUT THEN THEY GAVE TO YOU. 1704 00:55:37,300 --> 00:55:38,768 >> WELL, YEAH, THEY RAN OUT OF 1705 00:55:38,835 --> 00:55:41,504 PEOPLE. 1706 00:55:41,571 --> 00:55:44,174 BUT I'D LIKE TO OPEN THE FORUM 1707 00:55:44,240 --> 00:55:45,275 UP, WE'VE GOT A COUPLE MINUTES 1708 00:55:45,341 --> 00:55:46,042 HERE FOR QUESTIONS. 1709 00:55:46,109 --> 00:55:47,877 IF ANYBODY HAS ANY QUESTIONS, 1710 00:55:47,944 --> 00:55:50,113 PLEASE FEEL FREE TO STEP TO ONE 1711 00:55:50,180 --> 00:55:51,614 OF THE MICROPHONES TO ASK YOUR 1712 00:55:51,681 --> 00:56:01,124 QUESTIONS. 1713 00:56:01,191 --> 00:56:02,392 >> AMAZING TALK. 1714 00:56:02,459 --> 00:56:02,726 >> THANK YOU. 1715 00:56:02,792 --> 00:56:04,227 >> I'M CURIOUS ABOUT FOR GROWING 1716 00:56:04,294 --> 00:56:06,362 THE PIGS, YOU MENTI MENTIONED AT 1717 00:56:06,429 --> 00:56:06,930 THE SIZE OF THE HEART. 1718 00:56:06,996 --> 00:56:10,633 HOW DO YOU CONTROL FOR DIFFERENT 1719 00:56:10,700 --> 00:56:12,202 PATIENTS, START THINKING ABOUT 1720 00:56:12,268 --> 00:56:14,070 WHAT AGE OF THE PIG, WHAT'S THE 1721 00:56:14,137 --> 00:56:15,305 RELATIVE SIZE OF THAT PIG'S 1722 00:56:15,371 --> 00:56:19,042 HEART, AND THEN WHEN TO 1723 00:56:19,109 --> 00:56:19,342 TRANSPLANT. 1724 00:56:19,409 --> 00:56:20,610 >> IT'S FUNNY, THERE IS 1725 00:56:20,677 --> 00:56:21,611 VARIABILITY WITHIN THE PIGS, 1726 00:56:21,678 --> 00:56:23,780 PLUS OR MINUS 20% AT ANY GIVEN 1727 00:56:23,847 --> 00:56:25,882 WEIGHT OF THE PIG THAT THE HEART 1728 00:56:25,949 --> 00:56:28,485 MASS IS 20% PLUS OR MINUS. 1729 00:56:28,551 --> 00:56:30,754 SO YOU KNOW, I THINK WE GOT 1730 00:56:30,820 --> 00:56:33,156 HEART MASS MINUS ON OUR LAST 1731 00:56:33,223 --> 00:56:37,827 PATIENT, AND THAT HURT US. 1732 00:56:37,894 --> 00:56:39,529 WE DO THESE ANIMAL STUDIES, OF 1733 00:56:39,596 --> 00:56:41,431 COURSE, SO THE PIG SIZE THAT WE 1734 00:56:41,498 --> 00:56:45,702 CHOOSE FOR THE NON-HUMAN 1735 00:56:45,769 --> 00:56:47,203 PRIMATES IS ABOUT 18 KILOGRAMS, 1736 00:56:47,270 --> 00:56:49,839 AND WE PUT IT INTO MAYBE A 1737 00:56:49,906 --> 00:56:51,141 20-KILOGRAM BABOON. 1738 00:56:51,207 --> 00:56:52,976 SO THAT WORKS OUT JUST FINE AT 1739 00:56:53,042 --> 00:56:53,643 THAT LEVEL. 1740 00:56:53,710 --> 00:56:55,145 BUT IT DOESN'T SCALE QUITE AS 1741 00:56:55,211 --> 00:56:56,146 WELL WHEN EVERYBODY IS GETTING 1742 00:56:56,212 --> 00:56:57,881 BIGGER. 1743 00:56:57,947 --> 00:57:01,785 WE HAVE DECIDED BECAUSE IT IS 1744 00:57:01,851 --> 00:57:05,955 DIFFICULT TO DO THE TYPE OF 1745 00:57:06,022 --> 00:57:08,458 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN A PIG TO GET 1746 00:57:08,525 --> 00:57:09,726 HEART MASS THAT WE'RE GOING TO 1747 00:57:09,793 --> 00:57:12,695 USE STROKE VOLUME, OKAY, BASED 1748 00:57:12,762 --> 00:57:18,802 UPON THE PHILOSOPHY INDEX COMING 1749 00:57:18,868 --> 00:57:21,504 OUT OF THE OUTFLOW TRACK AND THE 1750 00:57:21,571 --> 00:57:23,139 SIZE OF THE OUTFLOW TRACK. 1751 00:57:23,206 --> 00:57:25,008 SO KNOWING PRESSURE 1752 00:57:25,074 --> 00:57:26,709 DIFFERENTIALS AND THE SIZE OF 1753 00:57:26,776 --> 00:57:28,478 THE OUTFLOW TRACT AND THE 1754 00:57:28,545 --> 00:57:29,212 VELOCITIES WHICH KIND OF COME 1755 00:57:29,279 --> 00:57:31,147 WITH THE ECHO, YOU CAN GET 1756 00:57:31,214 --> 00:57:33,249 STROKE VOLUME AND IT'S PRETTY 1757 00:57:33,316 --> 00:57:34,450 DARN ACCURATE, AND THAT'S A 1758 00:57:34,517 --> 00:57:35,819 WINDOW WE CAN GET IN THESE 1759 00:57:35,885 --> 00:57:36,486 ANIMALS WITHOUT HAVING TO PUT 1760 00:57:36,553 --> 00:57:39,989 THEM TO SLEEP TO PUT A SCOPE 1761 00:57:40,056 --> 00:57:40,523 DOWN. 1762 00:57:40,590 --> 00:57:42,458 ONCE THE ANIMALS HAVE ALL THAT 1763 00:57:42,525 --> 00:57:44,060 DONE, THEY GO INTO QUARANTINE, 1764 00:57:44,127 --> 00:57:46,262 AND SO IF YOU DON'T LIKE YOUR 1765 00:57:46,329 --> 00:57:47,130 PICTURES, TOO BAD, YOU'RE NOT 1766 00:57:47,197 --> 00:57:49,532 GOING TO GET THAT PIG OUT OF 1767 00:57:49,599 --> 00:57:50,500 QUARANTINE AGAIN, AGAIN, AND 1768 00:57:50,567 --> 00:57:52,802 THAT'S BECAUSE WE WORRY ABOUT 1769 00:57:52,869 --> 00:57:55,104 VIRUSES INFECTING THE ANIMALS. 1770 00:57:55,171 --> 00:57:58,675 SO IT'S NOT REALLY A PROBLEM. 1771 00:57:58,741 --> 00:58:02,178 THE RECEPTOR KNOCKOUT MAY NOT 1772 00:58:02,245 --> 00:58:04,113 SURVIVE IN THE HEART POPULATION 1773 00:58:04,180 --> 00:58:06,316 OF PIGS AFTER THE I ND. 1774 00:58:06,382 --> 00:58:08,952 WE WILL HAVE TO CHOOSE MEDIUM 1775 00:58:09,018 --> 00:58:11,187 WEIGHT HUMANOIDS FOR HEARTS THAT 1776 00:58:11,254 --> 00:58:15,158 ARE GOING TO BE NO BIGGER MAYBE 1777 00:58:15,225 --> 00:58:18,094 THAN FAIR FOR MAYBE AN 80 TO 1778 00:58:18,161 --> 00:58:19,863 90-KILOGRAM MALE MAX. 1779 00:58:19,929 --> 00:58:20,697 >> GREAT, THANK YOU. 1780 00:58:20,763 --> 00:58:25,001 >> YOU'RE WELCOME. 1781 00:58:25,068 --> 00:58:26,636 >> YOU MENTIONED THAT THE 1782 00:58:26,703 --> 00:58:28,004 ANTIBODY RESPONSES INCLUDED BOTH 1783 00:58:28,071 --> 00:58:28,872 IGG AND IGM. 1784 00:58:28,938 --> 00:58:30,206 >> YES, SIR. 1785 00:58:30,273 --> 00:58:33,576 >> IS THERE A NEW WAVE OF NEW 1786 00:58:33,643 --> 00:58:35,311 ANTIBODIES GENERATED WITH THE 1787 00:58:35,378 --> 00:58:36,512 IGM RESPONSE? 1788 00:58:36,579 --> 00:58:38,915 AND HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO FIND 1789 00:58:38,982 --> 00:58:40,750 CD4 CELLS THAT WOULD ACCOMPANY 1790 00:58:40,817 --> 00:58:45,054 THE CLASS SWITCHING TO IGG? 1791 00:58:45,121 --> 00:58:46,823 >> YES, THERE IS CLASS SWITCHING 1792 00:58:46,890 --> 00:58:48,725 OF COURSE, AND THE IGM IS 1793 00:58:48,791 --> 00:58:54,163 THOUGHT TO BE AN EARLY PHASE 1794 00:58:54,230 --> 00:58:54,931 REACTED AND PROBABLY MORE 1795 00:58:54,998 --> 00:58:57,100 RELATED TO THE ANTIBODY 1796 00:58:57,166 --> 00:58:58,201 DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITY. 1797 00:58:58,268 --> 00:59:01,471 SO I THINK BOTH CLASSES ARE 1798 00:59:01,537 --> 00:59:02,572 IMPORTANT, AND THAT'S REALLY ALL 1799 00:59:02,639 --> 00:59:04,841 I KNOW ABOUT IT. 1800 00:59:04,908 --> 00:59:08,344 I DON'T THINK WE HAVE DUG AS 1801 00:59:08,411 --> 00:59:09,445 DEEPLY AS WE COULD, AND IF YOU 1802 00:59:09,512 --> 00:59:11,147 HAVE AN INTEREST IN ANTIBODIES 1803 00:59:11,214 --> 00:59:12,682 AND ANTIBODY SWITCHING, I'D LOVE 1804 00:59:12,749 --> 00:59:18,154 TO TALK TO YOU. 1805 00:59:18,221 --> 00:59:19,422 >> ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE 1806 00:59:19,489 --> 00:59:24,560 AUDIENCE? 1807 00:59:24,627 --> 00:59:26,229 WE GET QUESTIONS IN FROM -- 1808 00:59:26,296 --> 00:59:27,864 >> B CELL SWITCHING, NOT 1809 00:59:27,931 --> 00:59:28,364 ANTIBODY SWITCHING. 1810 00:59:28,431 --> 00:59:31,000 >> FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR 1811 00:59:31,067 --> 00:59:31,634 YOUR PRESENTATION BUT VERY 1812 00:59:31,701 --> 00:59:32,835 IMPORTANTLY I WANT TO THANK YOUR 1813 00:59:32,902 --> 00:59:33,903 TWO PATIENTS WHO WERE PARTNERS 1814 00:59:33,970 --> 00:59:35,471 WITH YOU IN SCIENCE AND 1815 00:59:35,538 --> 00:59:40,510 ADVANCING THIS, SO WITHOUT THEIR 1816 00:59:40,576 --> 00:59:42,679 PARTICIPATION, I THINK ONE OF 1817 00:59:42,745 --> 00:59:43,947 THE STORIES YOU'VE SHARED WITH 1818 00:59:44,013 --> 00:59:45,648 THE STUDENTS THIS MORNING WAS 1819 00:59:45,715 --> 00:59:47,684 ONE OF YOUR PATIENTS SAID HOPE 1820 00:59:47,750 --> 00:59:48,985 YOU LEARN SOMETHING. 1821 00:59:49,052 --> 00:59:51,154 SO WITH THAT, A QUESTION COMES 1822 00:59:51,220 --> 00:59:52,588 IN FROM A VIDEO CAST VIEWER. 1823 00:59:52,655 --> 00:59:54,424 HOW IS THE ROLE OF THE BIOETHICS 1824 00:59:54,490 --> 00:59:55,525 PLAYED INTO YOUR WORK AND 1825 00:59:55,591 --> 00:59:57,360 CAREER? 1826 00:59:57,427 --> 01:00:02,532 >> TO THIS WORK OR OVERALL? 1827 01:00:02,598 --> 01:00:03,833 >> █PROBABLY THIS WORK. 1828 01:00:03,900 --> 01:00:05,501 >> SO IN OUR FIRST PATIENT, 1829 01:00:05,568 --> 01:00:06,769 BECAUSE HE WAS SO SICK, OUR DEAN 1830 01:00:06,836 --> 01:00:07,971 KEPT THINKING HE COULDN'T GIVE 1831 01:00:08,037 --> 01:00:09,839 TRUE CONSENT. 1832 01:00:09,906 --> 01:00:10,273 RIGHT? 1833 01:00:10,340 --> 01:00:11,207 DEAN CAME TO SEE HIM. 1834 01:00:11,274 --> 01:00:11,774 I DON'T KNOW. 1835 01:00:11,841 --> 01:00:12,976 IT WAS THE DEAN'S PROBLEM, I 1836 01:00:13,042 --> 01:00:13,509 THINK. 1837 01:00:13,576 --> 01:00:14,711 WE HAD FOUR PSYCHIATRISTS SEE 1838 01:00:14,777 --> 01:00:16,879 HIM AND ALL OF THEM AGREED HE 1839 01:00:16,946 --> 01:00:17,313 COULD CONSENT. 1840 01:00:17,380 --> 01:00:20,183 ON TOP OF THAT, WE HAVE AN 1841 01:00:20,249 --> 01:00:21,117 ETHICS COMMITTEE AT THE 1842 01:00:21,184 --> 01:00:24,387 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, AND IT'S 1843 01:00:24,454 --> 01:00:25,154 AN OUTSTANDING COMMITTEE AND 1844 01:00:25,221 --> 01:00:28,424 NONE OF THEM HAVE CONFLICT OF 1845 01:00:28,491 --> 01:00:30,193 INTEREST IN THE PROCEDURE, AND 1846 01:00:30,259 --> 01:00:32,428 THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE 1847 01:00:32,495 --> 01:00:33,763 STAYED WITH US AND ROUNDED EVERY 1848 01:00:33,830 --> 01:00:34,931 MORNING WITH US AFTER SURGERY, 1849 01:00:34,998 --> 01:00:36,232 WHICH IS WONDERFUL AND HE'S 1850 01:00:36,299 --> 01:00:38,634 WRITTEN A PAPER ON IT. 1851 01:00:38,701 --> 01:00:42,705 AND YOU KNOW, THEY BASICALLY DO 1852 01:00:42,772 --> 01:00:44,340 WHAT ETHICISTS DO. 1853 01:00:44,407 --> 01:00:45,808 THERE'S ALWAYS TWO SIDES OF AN 1854 01:00:45,875 --> 01:00:47,944 ETHICAL ARGUMENT, AND I GUESS 1855 01:00:48,011 --> 01:00:49,312 YOU COULD BEGIN, IS IT ETHICAL 1856 01:00:49,379 --> 01:00:50,747 TO TAKE A PIG, YOU KNOW, AND 1857 01:00:50,813 --> 01:00:53,149 SACRIFICE A PIG FOR AN 1858 01:00:53,216 --> 01:00:54,050 EXPERIMENTAL HUMAN TRANSPLANT. 1859 01:00:54,117 --> 01:00:55,318 THERE'S SOME PEOPLE THAT THINK 1860 01:00:55,385 --> 01:00:57,620 WE SHOULDN'T. 1861 01:00:57,687 --> 01:00:59,589 I THINK THEY'RE IN THE MINORITY, 1862 01:00:59,655 --> 01:01:00,690 BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S PART OF 1863 01:01:00,757 --> 01:01:01,724 THE ISSUE. 1864 01:01:01,791 --> 01:01:03,826 AND THEN, OF COURSE, IS IT 1865 01:01:03,893 --> 01:01:05,361 ETHICAL TO SPEND THE MONEY, 1866 01:01:05,428 --> 01:01:08,297 RIGHT, ON THIS TYPE OF EXPENSIVE 1867 01:01:08,364 --> 01:01:09,032 RESEARCH, AND WE TALKED ABOUT 1868 01:01:09,098 --> 01:01:10,433 THAT A LITTLE BIT EARLIER WITH 1869 01:01:10,500 --> 01:01:15,471 THE NHLBI GROUP, AND YOU KNOW, 1870 01:01:15,538 --> 01:01:16,572 WHAT'S NOT ETHICAL ABOUT IT? 1871 01:01:16,639 --> 01:01:18,307 I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. 1872 01:01:18,374 --> 01:01:21,544 IF YOU'RE NOT WORRIED ABOUT 1873 01:01:21,611 --> 01:01:23,079 ZOOINOSIS, INFECTING A WHOLE NEW 1874 01:01:23,146 --> 01:01:25,148 GROUP OF NURSES AND THIS AND 1875 01:01:25,214 --> 01:01:26,916 THAT, AND BY THE WAY, OUR NURSES 1876 01:01:26,983 --> 01:01:28,184 HAD AN OPT OUT, THEY DIDN'T HAVE 1877 01:01:28,251 --> 01:01:29,952 TO TAKE CARE OF THE PATIENT. 1878 01:01:30,019 --> 01:01:33,356 AND ONLY ABOUT 10 OUT OF 300 1879 01:01:33,423 --> 01:01:33,790 OPTED OUT. 1880 01:01:33,856 --> 01:01:35,925 IT WAS KIND OF NEAT. 1881 01:01:35,992 --> 01:01:37,026 SO THEY BLEW THROUGH THAT. 1882 01:01:37,093 --> 01:01:39,429 THEY DIDN'T WORRY ABOUT IT. 1883 01:01:39,495 --> 01:01:40,696 SO THAT WAS ABOUT ALL. 1884 01:01:40,763 --> 01:01:43,332 I MEAN, THE MOST IMPORTANT 1885 01:01:43,399 --> 01:01:46,736 ETHICAL QUESTION IS, AM I 1886 01:01:46,803 --> 01:01:50,006 PROMISING THE PATIENT, OKAY, 1887 01:01:50,073 --> 01:01:52,408 THAT THERE'S A GREATER 1888 01:01:52,475 --> 01:01:54,477 LIKELIHOOD OF THERAPY, OKAY, 1889 01:01:54,544 --> 01:01:55,912 OVER WHAT I'M GOING TO LEARN. 1890 01:01:55,978 --> 01:01:58,247 IN OTHER WORDS, THERAPEUTIC 1891 01:01:58,314 --> 01:01:59,048 MISCONCEPTION IS A VERY 1892 01:01:59,115 --> 01:02:00,550 IMPORTANT THING THAT ETHICISTS 1893 01:02:00,616 --> 01:02:01,317 TALK ABOUT. 1894 01:02:01,384 --> 01:02:03,619 AND THAT KIND OF MEANS, AGAIN, 1895 01:02:03,686 --> 01:02:05,455 THAT I'M PROMISING THE PATIENT 1896 01:02:05,521 --> 01:02:06,856 THAT HE HAS A LIKELIHOOD OF 1897 01:02:06,923 --> 01:02:09,492 LIVING LONGER WHEN, IN FACT, HE 1898 01:02:09,559 --> 01:02:11,094 DOESN'T HAVE A LIKELIHOOD OF 1899 01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:11,661 LIVING LONGER. 1900 01:02:11,727 --> 01:02:13,529 I HAVE NO -- THERE'S NO JUSTICE 1901 01:02:13,596 --> 01:02:15,832 IN THAT BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW, 1902 01:02:15,898 --> 01:02:16,365 RIGHT? 1903 01:02:16,432 --> 01:02:19,969 WHAT IS PRETTY SURE IS THAT IESM 1904 01:02:20,036 --> 01:02:20,903 GOING TO GAIN BY THE KNOWLEDGE 1905 01:02:20,970 --> 01:02:23,473 THAT WE LEARN FROM HIS 1906 01:02:23,539 --> 01:02:24,974 INVOLVEMENT IN THE PROCEDURE. 1907 01:02:25,041 --> 01:02:28,678 SO AT NO TIME CAN WE TELL THE 1908 01:02:28,744 --> 01:02:30,847 PATIENT, RIGHT, OR CONVINCE THE 1909 01:02:30,913 --> 01:02:32,148 PATIENT THAT YOU SHOULD SIGN ON 1910 01:02:32,215 --> 01:02:33,149 THIS PAPER BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING 1911 01:02:33,216 --> 01:02:36,119 TO DIE IF YOU DON'T. 1912 01:02:36,185 --> 01:02:37,520 YOU SIGN ON THIS PAPER BECAUSE 1913 01:02:37,587 --> 01:02:39,889 WE HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO TREAT 1914 01:02:39,956 --> 01:02:40,323 YOU WITH. 1915 01:02:40,389 --> 01:02:41,457 WE HAVE EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE 1916 01:02:41,524 --> 01:02:44,961 THAT WE NEED TO LEARN MORE FROM 1917 01:02:45,027 --> 01:02:46,996 WE'RE GOING TO LEARN A LOT FROM 1918 01:02:47,063 --> 01:02:48,764 YOU, AND WE HOPE THAT YOU MAY 1919 01:02:48,831 --> 01:02:49,966 LIVE A LITTLE LONGER TO GET 1920 01:02:50,032 --> 01:02:52,268 HOME. 1921 01:02:52,335 --> 01:02:55,771 THAT'S IT. 1922 01:02:55,838 --> 01:02:58,374 [APPLAUSE] 1923 01:02:58,441 --> 01:03:01,878 >> THANK YOU ALL AGAIN VERY MU 1924 01:03:01,944 --> 01:03:02,078 MUCH. 1925 01:03:02,145 --> 01:03:04,046 AS YOU MAY KNOW, THERE'S SOME -- 1926 01:03:04,113 --> 01:03:05,982 WE DO HAVE -- UNFORTUNATELY WE 1927 01:03:06,048 --> 01:03:07,517 WEREN'T ABLE TO OPEN UP TO EVERY 1928 01:03:07,583 --> 01:03:09,051 SINGLE HUMAN PERSON, WE WOULD 1929 01:03:09,118 --> 01:03:10,253 LOVE TO HAVE DONE THAT, BUT IF 1930 01:03:10,319 --> 01:03:11,554 YOU HAVE AN EMAIL, YOU KNOW WHO 1931 01:03:11,621 --> 01:03:13,589 YOU ARE, THERE'S AN INVITATION 1932 01:03:13,656 --> 01:03:16,359 LUNCH, WE HAD TO MOVE IT UP TO 1933 01:03:16,425 --> 01:03:18,961 THE FAES TERRACE, SO IN CASE 1934 01:03:19,028 --> 01:03:22,031 THAT EMAIL WAS CONFUSING, ADD TO 1935 01:03:22,098 --> 01:03:23,633 THE OTHER LIST OF CONFUSING 1936 01:03:23,699 --> 01:03:24,167 EMAILS I SEND. 1937 01:03:24,233 --> 01:03:25,501 >> I DIDN'T GET AN EMAIL. 1938 01:03:25,568 --> 01:03:28,404 >> YEAH, THAT'S WHY I'M HERE. 1939 01:03:28,471 --> 01:03:32,008 AGAIN, THANKS, ERCH, HAVE A GOOA 1940 01:03:32,074 GOOD DAY.