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NYU Langone performs a new procedure for kidney replacement using pig organ Fox News senior medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel joins ‘America Reports’ to explain the latest medical development in organ transplants.     An Alabama woman has successfully received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant at NYU Langone Health. 
This was the seventh pig organ transplant completed by NYU Langone surgeons. Towana Looney, 53, miraculously wa…

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Woman receives pig kidney transplant, walks out of hospital days later: ‘Second chance’

Towana Looney became the first living person in the world to get a kidney from a new kind of genetically modified pig last month. Health correspondent Rob Stein got exclusive access to be in the operating room.Towana is a 53-year-old grandmother from Gadsden, Ala. She's been on dialysis for four hours a day, three days a week since 2016. Her immune system would reject a human kidney. So the Food and Drug Administration made an exception to its u…

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After a seven-hour operation, Towana Looney is currently the only person in the world living with a pig kidney. How she's doing.

Mit einer siebenstündigen Operation ist Towana Looney derzeit die einzige Person auf der Welt, die mit einer Schweineniere lebt. Wie es ihr geht.

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December 18, 2024 Baghdad/Al-Masala: Twana Looney, a 53-year-old American woman whose only kidney stopped working... The article Details of the third pig kidney transplant to a human appeared first on Al-Masala.

18 ديسمبر، 2024 بغداد/المسلة: أصبحت توانا لوني، وهي أميركية تبلغ 53 عاما توقفت كليتها الوحيدة... ظهرت المقالة تفاصيل ثالث عملية زراعة كلية خنزير لإنسان أولاً على المسلة.

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Details of the third pig kidney transplant to a human

Just last month, a woman became the third living recipient of a pig kidney transplant. Now, her kidney is functioning well, and she no longer requires dialysis.  The transplant recipient was 53-year-old Towana Looney from Alabama. In 1999, she donated a kidney to her mother, but a few years later, she developed high blood pressure linked to preeclampsia during pregnancy. The condition led her to develop chronic kidney disease.  In 2016, she star…

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She Became The Third Living Recipient Of A Pig Kidney Transplant, And She No Longer Requires Dialysis

An Alabama woman has successfully received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant at NYU Langone Health. This was the seventh pig organ transplant completed by NYU Langone surgeons. Towana Looney, 53, miraculously walked out of the hospital just a few days following the procedure. MASSACHUSETTS MAN, RECIPIENT OF FIRST SUCCESSFUL PIG KIDNEY TRANSPLANT, IS DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL In an NYU Langone press conference, Looney expressed feeling “overjoye…

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Woman receives pig kidney transplant, walks out of hospital days later: ‘Second chance'

An Alabama woman has successfully received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant at NYU Langone Health. This was the seventh pig organ transplant completed by NYU Langone surgeons. Towana Looney, 53, miraculously walked out of the hospital just a few days following the procedure. MASSACHUSETTS MAN, RECIPIENT OF FIRST SUCCESSFUL PIG KIDNEY TRANSPLANT, IS DISCHARGED FROM

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Medical specialists have achieved a new milestone in the field of transplants by performing the third surgery of a genetically modified pig kidney to a human being. This procedure represents a significant advance in the search for solutions to the shortage of organs for donation. The patient is Towana Looney, a 53-year-old woman based in Alabama, USA. This innovative procedure, carried out on November 25, has allowed Looney to leave dialysis and…

Especialistas en medicina han logrado un nuevo hito en el campo de los trasplantes al realizar la tercera cirugía de un riñón de cerdo modificado genéticamente a un ser humano. Este procedimiento representa un avance significativo en la búsqueda de soluciones para la escasez de órganos para donación. La paciente es Towana Looney, una mujer de 53 años de edad que radica en Alabama, Estados Unidos. Este procedimiento innovador, llevado a cabo el p…

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"I am delighted," said Towana Looney, a 53-year-old American who has become the third person to receive a pig kidney transplant, an even very experimental practice. The patient, still under medical supervision since her surgery in late November at Langone Hospital at the University of New York, a pioneer in this field, overflows with joy. "I am delighted, I am blessed to have received this gift, this second chance in life," she said at a press c…

«Estoy encantada», declaró Towana Looney, una estadounidense de 53 años que se ha convertido en la tercera persona en recibir un trasplante de riñón porcino, una práctica aún muy experimental. La paciente, todavía bajo supervisión médica desde su operación a finales de noviembre en el Hospital Langone de la Universidad de Nueva York, pionero en este campo, rebosa de alegría. «Estoy encantada, me siento bendecida por haber recibido este regalo, e…

Woman receives pig kidney transplant, walks out of hospital days later: ‘Second chance’

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