Alabama women passed a large milestone on Saturdays to become the longest recipient of pig organ transplantation. It has been healthy and energy with a new kidneys for 61 days.
“I am a superwoman,” Towana Rooney said to AP communication and laughed that he had continued to recover with a long walk in New York. “It's a new view of life.”
Looney's lively recovery is the boost of morale in searching for transplantation from animals to humans.
Only the other four Americans have received a very experimental transplant of genetic edited pig organs (two heart and two kidney), but have not lived for more than two months.
“If she saw her on the street, she wouldn't think she was the only person in the world she was walking around with the pig organs she was working on.”・ Langone Health Dr. Robert Montgomery said.
Montgomery calls Rooney's kidney function “absolutely normal.”
Doctors want to be able to leave New York, who is temporarily living for a transplant inspection, for Gazden, Alabama.
“We are very optimistic that we continue to work and work well for a considerable period of time,” he said.
Scientists are genetically changing pigs, so the organs are more human to address the serious deficiency of transplanted human organs.
More than 100,000 people are on the US transplant list, most of them require a kidneys, and thousands of people wait.
So far, pig organ transplantation has been a case of “caring use”.
And a small number of hospitals that are trying them share information about what worked and what did not work in order to prepare for the world's first official research, which is expected to begin this year. Masu.
The United Serapytics, which supplies Rooney's kidneys, has recently called for permission from the Food Pharmaceutical Bureau to start a trial.
Dr. Kai Kai of Massachusetts General Hospital, who led the world's first pignean transplant last year and cooperated with Aisenesis, another pig developer, said Dr. Kai, a “very valuable experience.”
Kawai pointed out that Rooney was much more healthy than his previous patients, so her progress will help her to notify the next attempt. “We must learn from each other,” he said.
Rooney donated his kidneys to his mother in 1999.
The subsequent complications of pregnancy caused hypertension that damaged the remaining kidney and eventually failed.
She spent eight years on dialysis before concluding that doctors would never get donated organs.
53 -year -old Rooney called for a pig experiment.
Nobody knew how they work with their overactive antibodies.
The Montgomery team, who was discharged only 11 days after the surgery on November 25, pursued recovery through blood tests and other measurements.
About three weeks after the transplant, they captured the subtle signs that rejection had begun. Thanks to the experiment in 2023, a sign that the pig kidney has been looking for a donated deceased for 61 days.
Montgomery said they succeeded in treating Rooney and have since not signs of rejection since then -a few weeks ago, she met a family behind the deceased's research.
“I'm really happy to know that the decision to use NYU to use my brother, and I'm really happy to know that it helps people,” said Mary Miller Duffy in New York, New York.
Rooney is trying to help others in order, working as an ambassador for those who are reaching out to her through social media, and shares the pig kidney for a long time for a long time for transplantation. I'm wondering about it.
She said she was considering heterogeneous agents at another hospital, but was scared and wondered if she should go.
“I didn't want to persuade him to do it,” said Rooney. Instead, she asked if he was religious, prayed to him, and urged him to say, “Leaving your faith and your heart tells you.”
“I love talking to people and I love helping people,” she added. “I want to be some educational parts” to help scientists help others.
There is no way to predict how long Rooney's new kidneys work, but if they fail, she can get dialysis again.
“The truth is that this is the first time we have come this far.” We must keep keeping up with her. “
