The Alabama woman removed the pork kidney after a record of 130 days
A Alabama woman Living with a pork kidney for a record of 130 days was removed after her body began to refuse it.
Towana Looney from Gadsden, Alabama, returned home after the surgery of April 4 at the Nyu Langone Health.
Looney thanked her doctors for “the opportunity to be part of this incredible research”.
Towana Looney, a recipient of pork kidney transplant, receives a morning check-up with Dr. Jeffrey Stern at the New York Langone Health in New York, Friday 24 January 2025. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)
Woman who received an experimental pork kidney transplant on dialysis after the new failed organ
Although the doctors have now returned to them, the experience has given doctors so necessary on the journey to a solution.
“Although the result is not what someone wanted, I know that a lot has been learned from my 130 days with a pork kidney – and that this can help and inspire many others on their journey to the overcoming of kidney diseases,” Looney said to the Associated Press.
Looney receives dialysis since 2016 and has been prepared abnormally to refuse a human kidney according to an EP report.
From the procedure, he called himself “superdonna” and was able to live longer than anyone with a genetic -edited pork organ. Looney had the organ from his transplant on November 25 until the beginning of April.
The recipient of Towana Looney’s pig kidney transplant is located with 2 transplant surgeon Dr. Jayme Locke on 10 December 2024, at the Nyu Langone Health in New York. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)
Dr. Robert Montgomery, Looney’s surgeon, said that the refusal was investigated.
He and his doctors decided that it would have been less risky to remove the kidney of the pig rather than try to save him.
“We did the safe thing,” Montgomery said at the AP. “It is not worse than it was before (the xenotransplant) and he told you that he is better because he had this 4th months break from the dialysis.”
Looney suffered a first infection and her immuno-cork anti-rejection drugs were slightly lowered, Montgomery said. At the same time, its immune system was reactivating after the transplant. These factors may have combined to damage the new kidney, he said.
Lisa Pisano looks at the photos of her dog after her surgical interventions at the Nyu Langone Health in New York on Monday 22 April 2024. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)
In May last year, Lisa Pisano, the second person to receive a kidney From a genius edited pig, he also had to remove the kidney to resume dialysis.
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More than 100,000 people are on the waiting list of US transplantation, most of them You need a kidneyAnd thousands die waiting. In the hope of filling the deficiency of donated organs, several biotechnological companies are genetically changing the pigs, therefore their organs are more human, less likely to be destroyed by the immune system of people.
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
