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As also Alabama woman Living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days when her body began to throw it away.
Towana LOOONY from GDSDen, Alabama, returned home after operation on April 4 at Nyu Langone Health.
Luni thanked his doctors for “the opportunity to become part of this incredible study.”
Trauen Luni, a pig transplant recipient, receives a morning check with Dr. Jeffrey Stern at Nyu Langone Health in New York, Friday, January 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)
Woman who received experimental pig transplant for dialysis after a bad new organ
Although doctors have now returned to dialysis, this experience gave the doctors the necessary information about the journey to the decision.
“Although the result is not what anyone wanted, I know that I have learned a lot from my 130 days with a pig – and that it can help and inspire many others in its path to overcoming kidney disease,” said Luni asashijet.
Luni has been dialysis since 2016 and has been abnormally based to reject the human kidney, the AP said.
Since the procedure, she called herself a “super-female” and was able to live longer than anyone in which the Gene-Organ is edited. Luni had an organ from the transplant on November 25 to early April.
On December 10, 2024, in New York on December 10, 2024 in New York in New York on December 10, 2024 in New York Langone in New York on December 10, 2024 in New York in New York. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)
Dr. Robert Montgomery, surgeon Luni, said the refusal was being investigated.
He and her doctors decided that to remove the pig would be less risky than trying to keep it.
“We have done a safe business,” Montgomery said. “It is no worse than before (Xenotransplant) and she will tell you what she had better because she had 4½ months of break from dialysis.”
Luni survived the infection before her immunity drugs were slightly reduced, Montgomery said. At the same time, its immune system was reactivated after transplanting. He said these factors may be combined to damage the new kidney.
Lisa Written looks at the photos of his dog after operations in Nyu Langone Health in New York on Monday, April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)
Last May Lisa Written, the second person who received the kidney From the pig, which is edited by the gene, also had to remove the kidney to restore dialysis.
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More than 100,000 people are on the US transplant list, most Need a kidneyAnd thousands die in anticipation. In the hope of filling the deficit bodies, several biotechnology companies genetically change pigs, so their organs are more like a person, less likely that their immune system of people.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
