Towana Looney received a gene-edited pig kidney in November 2024. The transplant lasted a record 4 months and 9 days. However, her immune system rejected the organ. Doctors removed the kidney on ...

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Patients seeking a kidney transplant must first complete a series of medical tests to assess their eligibility for the procedure and ensure they are healthy enough to take immunosuppressant ...

This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant. She has returned to dialysis and awaits future transplant possibilities. Towana Looney lived for more than four months with ...

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...

In a leading-edge approach, the research team analyzed a large, anonymized dataset of kidney offers, linking individual clinician data from on-call records of 15 transplant centers to national ...

A kidney transplant patient has died in Ohio after receiving an organ infected with rabies. The recipient received care in Lucas County, Ohio, in December 2024, the Toledo-Lucas County Health ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...

The Ministry of Health has suspended kidney transplant services at Mediheal Hospital and redirected patients to eight other licensed facilities, including Kenyatta National Hospital and Moi ...

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