Alabama women, the only living recipient of pig organ transplantation, handed a large milestone when they became the longest living person with the pig organ working on Saturday.
53 -year -old Towana Rooney remained healthy and energetic and reached a recorded mark for 61 days in a pig kidney on Saturday.
“I'm a superwoman,” Rooney said to the AP communication. “It's a new view of life.”
Only the other four Americans received experimental transplantation of pork organs edited genetic edited -The two received the heart, the other two received the kidneys, but they have lived for more than two months. It was.
Women receive a pig kidney transplant and leave the hospital a few days later: “Second chance”
Towana Rooney, a pig kidney transplant in November 2024, will look at a memo with Dr. Jeffrey Stern on Friday, January 24, 2025 on New York in New York. (AP)
“If she saw her on the street, you wouldn't think that she was the only person in a world where she was walking around with her functional pig organs,” he said. Dr. Robert Montgomery of Ni Langone Health said.
Montgomery said Rooney's renal function was “absolutely normal.” She is temporarily staying in New York and can be tested after transplant, but she wants her doctor to return to Gazden, Alabama in about a month.
“We are very optimistic that this continues to work and works well for a considerable period of time,” said Montgomery.
Scientists are more human -like to change pigs genetically and to support the serious shortage of human organs that can be used for transplantation.
There are more than 10,000 US transplant lists. Most of these individuals require a kidney, and thousands of people wait and die.
The Food and Pharmaceutical Bureau allows pigs organ transplantation in special situations for those who have run out of other alternatives.
Dr. Massachusetts General Hospital, who led the world's first pignight transplant in the world last year and cooperated with another pig developer EGENESIS, stated that how well Rooney work was “very valuable experience.” Ta.
TOWANA LOONEY will participate in the NYU Languone Health Health press conference on Tuesday, December 17, 2024. (Fox News)
According to Kawai, Rooney said that her progress was much more healthy than her previous pig recipient, to inform her doctor about her future attempts.
“We must learn from each other,” he said.
Looney donated his kidneys to his mother in 1999, and the subsequent complications caused the remaining kidney to damage the remaining kidney and eventually failed.
She spent eight years on dialysis before judging that it is unlikely that doctors will receive a very high -level antibody that has been abnormally primed to attack another human kidneys. I did it.
Rooney wanted to try pig organ experiments in search of alternatives. No one knew how it worked with someone who was “very sensitive” with an overactive antibody.
Montgomery's team has been pursuing Rooney's recovery through blood tests and other measurements since November 25. About three weeks after transplantation, a delicate sign that rejection had begun was detected. They knew that they would look for these signs for 2023 experiments, which worked for 61 days among the deceased men donated by the pig kidney for research.
Masachusetts' male, the first successful pig kidney transplant recipient will be discharged from the hospital.
On April 6, 2020, outside the entrance of NYU Languone Health Emergency Rorom in New York City. (NOAM GALAI/Getty Images)
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Montgomery said his team had well treated Rooney and hadn't been a sign of rejection since then.
It is impossible to predict how long Rooney's new kidney will work. However, if she failed, she was able to receive dialysis again.
“The truth is that you really don't know what the next hurdle is.” We must keep keeping up with her. “
AP communication has contributed to this report.
