The only woman who has a normal pig organ in Alabama has reached a milestone record of 2 months
A woman in Alabama is the only living recipient of pig organ transplants. When he became the longest person with the longest pig organs on Saturday, he passed a major milestone.
Towana LONEY, 53, remained healthy and energetic. Saturday and her pig kidneys reached 61 days of results.
“I am a Superman,” Rooney told the Associated Press. “This is a new life.”
Only the other four Americans accepted the experimental transplantation of gene editing pig organs-the two accepted the heart, while the other two accepted the kidneys, but none of them exceeded two months.
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Towana Looney accepted the pig kidney transplant in November 2024, and recovered in Dr. Jeffrey Stern, NU LANGONE Health, New York on Friday, January 24, 2025. (AP)
“If you see her on the street, you don’t know that she is the only person in the world with pig organs, and their hearts are running normally.” Dr. Robert Montgomery said.
Montgomeli said that Rooney’s kidney function is “absolutely normal.” She has been living in New York temporarily so that she can accept the inspection after transplantation, but the doctor hopes that she can return to the home of Gazen, Alabama in about a month.
“We are very optimistic that this will continue to work hard and work for a long time.”
Scientists are changing pigs in genes, so their organs are more like humans and can support a serious shortage of human organs that can be used for transplantation.
There are more than 100,000 people in the US transplantation list. Most of these people need kidneys, and tens of thousands of people die.
The Food and Drug Administration only allows pig organ transplants for people who have used other alternatives under special circumstances.
Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, Massachusetts Satsuki Hospital, led the world’s first pig kidney transplant last year and cooperated with another pig developer EGNESIS that LONEY’s performance was “very valuable experience”.
Towana Looney sat at the NYU LANGONE Health Press conference on Tuesday, December 17, 2024. (Fox News)
According to Sichuan, Rooney is much healthier than previous pig organ recipients. He said that her progress would help to inform doctors’ future attempts.
He said, “We must learn from each other.”
Looney donated the kidneys to her mother in 1999. Later, her pregnancy complications caused hypertension to damage her remaining kidneys and eventually failed. This was a rare situation of living donors.
Before the doctor was determined that it was unlikely to receive the donation organs, she spent eight years for dialysis because her antibodies had high antibodies and abnormal effects to attack another human kidney.
Looney, who seeks alternative, wants to try pork organ experiments. No one knows how it will use excessive active antibodies “highly sensitive”.
Since the operation on November 25, Moncore’s team has conducted a careful study through blood tests and other measurements. About three weeks after transplantation, the subtle signs of rejecting start were detected. They knew to find these signs, because the experiments in 2023 were at that time, the pig kidneys were donated to the dead of the dead for 61 days.
The Massachusetts men are the first successful pork kidney transplantation recipients and have been discharged from the hospital
On April 6, 2020, at the entrance of the Landarin Health Emergency Room in New York, in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)
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Montgomery said his team successfully healed Rooney, and there was no sign of rejection since then.
It is impossible to predict how long the new kidneys will be. However, if she wants to fail, she may accept dialysis again.
Montgomery said: “The fact is that we really don’t know what the next obstacle is, because this is the first time we have gone so far.” “We must continue to pay close attention to her.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
