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Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...
An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...
An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it ...
An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.
For the first time since 2016, I enjoyed time with friends and family without planning around dialysis treatments,” the patient said in a statement.
Tytiana Looney (left) and her mother, Towana Looney, of Gadsden, Alabama, who has survived longer than anyone else so far with a kidney from a pig. The Looneys were photographed on Jan. 19 in New ...
Towana Looney's transplanted pig kidney was removed ... but it happened after they reduced the medication Looney, from Gadsden, Alabama, was taking to tamp down her immune response to the pig ...