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An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had it removed after her body began to reject it. Towana Looney from Gadsden, Ala., returned home following her April 4 surgery at ...
Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...
FILKE - Pig kidney transplant recipient Towana Looney sits with transplant surgeon Dr. Jayme Locke on Dec. 10, 2024, at NYU ...
who were severely ill before the surgery, died. Now researchers are attempting these transplants in slightly less sick patients, like Looney. A New Hampshire man who received a pig kidney in ...
A 90-year-old woman from Jainath of Adilabad has successfully undergone a kidney stone removal surgery at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS-Adilabad). The patient, Ankath Pintubayi ...
One of the stars of the Discovery Channel docudrama series Moonshiners recently underwent emergency surgery and had a kidney removed following a ruptured main artery. Troy Halsey has frequently ...
who were severely ill before the surgery, died. Now researchers are attempting these transplants in slightly less sick patients, like Looney. A New Hampshire man who received a pig kidney in ...
A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...
An artificial intelligence (AI)-based model developed by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers can accurately predict ...
Brian Austin Green had to get emergency surgery after doctors discovered the pain he was feeling in his stomach was actually a perforated appendix.