US EditionDoctors remove pig kidney from an Alabama woman after a record 130 days
- Towana Looney, a 53-year-old Alabama woman, had a pig kidney removed on April 4 at NYU Langone after 130 days.
- Looney had been on dialysis for nine years and didn't qualify for a standard transplant due to complications.
- The transplant of the gene-edited pig kidney, called UKidney, provided her a dialysis-free period and was the longest such case.
- Dr. Montgomery noted the kidney seemed to function until immunosuppression was lowered to address an infection; Looney stated, "I'm so grateful".
- The removal preserves future transplant options for Looney, and her case advances xenotransplantation knowledge, despite the outcome, said United Therapeutics.
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Pig Kidney Removed After Historic Transplant in Alabama Woman
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Sad News For Ala. Black Woman Who Received Historic, Successful Pig Kidney Transplant
Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the routine procedure would give her mother a new lease on life and herself peace of mind. But instead, Looney would experience an onslaught of her own health problems putting her life in danger.Read more...
Kidney xenotransplant: after four months, the genetically modified pig organ was removed
Towana Looney, 53, had been transplanted in November 2024 by Professor Robert Montgomery's team, at NYU Langone Health. The decision to transplant the kidney, after a crisis of organ rejection. The woman, however, has lived with a genetically modified kidney, longer than any other patient
Alabama woman has pig kidney removed after record 130 days
An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.Towana Looney lived with the kidney for a record 130 days before it was taken out on April 4 at NYU Langone Health in New York, doctors said. She is back in Alabama on dialysis and recovering well from the recent surgery, according to the doctors. RELATED STORY | Alabama woman receives genetically modified pig kidney in rare animal trans…
US Woman Lives With Pig Kidney For 130 Days, Removed After Organ Rejection
An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday - a disappointment in the ongoing quest for animal-to-human transplants. Towana Looney is recovering well from the April 4 removal surgery at NYU Langone Health and has returned home to Gadsden, Alabama. In a statement, she thanked her doctors for "the opportunity to be part …
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