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An Alabama woman Living with pork kidney for a 130 -day record was removed after the body began to reject it.
Towana Looney of Gadsden, Ala, returned home after surgery on April 4 in Nyu Langone Health.
Looney thanked the doctors for “the opportunity to be part of this incredible research.”
Towana Looney, the recipient of the pig -renal transplant, receives a morning review with Dr. Jeffrey Stern from Nyu Langon Health in New York, on Friday, January 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Shelby lum)
A woman who received experimental renal transplant for pigs on dialysis after the new organ failed
Although doctors are now returning to dialysis, the experience has given doctors a much needed information about the road to a solution.
“Although the outcome is not what anyone wanted, I know that a lot has learned from my 130 days with the kidneys of pigs – and that it can help and inspire many others on their journey to the overcome of the kidney disease,” Looney told Associate Press.
Looney Prima Dialysis since 2016 and was abnormally prepared for the rejection of the human kidney, according to the AP -AA report.
From the procedure, she called herself a “superwoman” and managed to live longer than anyone with a pork organ decorated with a gene. Looney had an organ from a transplant on November 25 to early April.
The recipient of the Towan Looney pork renal transplant sits with 2 transplant surgeon Dr. Jayme Locke on December 10, 2024. In Nyu Langone Health, New York. (AP Photo/Shelby lum)
Dr. Robert Montgomery, Looney’s surgeon, said the rejection was explored.
He and her doctors have decided that it is less risky to remove the pork kidney than to try to save it.
“We did a safe thing,” Montgomery told AP. “It’s not worse than before (Xenotransplant) and I would tell you that she is better off because she had this break from dialysis.”
Looney has previously suffered infection, and the drug rejection drugs have been slightly lowered, Montgomery said. At the same time, its immune system reactivated after transplantation. These factors may have combined themselves to damage the new kidney, he said.
Lisa is written in writing with photos of her dog after surgery in Nyu Langone Health in New York on Monday, April 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Shelby lum)
In May last year, Lisa written, Another person to receive a kidney From a pig -decorated pig, she also had to remove the kidney to continue dialysis.
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More than 100,000 people are on the waiting list for transplantation, most of which needs a kidneyand thousands of dying are waiting. In the hope that they will fill the lack of donated organs, several biotechnical companies genetically modify pigs, so their organs are more human, it is less likely that people will destroy them.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
