Doctors remove pig kidney from an Alabama woman after a record 130 days

Doctors remove pig kidney from Alabama woman

WASHINGTON — 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…

Pig kidney removed from Alabama woman a record 130 days after she received transplant

Doctors have removed a pig kidney from an Alabama woman after she lived with the organ for a record 130 days.

Pig kidney removed from U.S. transplant patient, but she set record

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months living with the animal’s organ set a record, the hospital that performed the operation said Friday.

Towana Luney, 50, from Alabama, underwent a transplant at the end of November

Pig kidney removed from US woman after record-setting 4 months

Towana Looney’s body eventually rejected the animal organ, but previous recipients of such transplants did not survive past two months.

Towana Looney, a 53-year-old American woman, had been transplanted in November 2024 from a genetically modified pig kidney, a practice still very experimental but which nourishes the hope of responding to the chronic shortage...