Among 20 patients who got the kidney and cell transplants, 15 of them, including Wiederhoeft and Okey, were able to stop ...

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But he said Looney and her doctors agreed it would be less risky to remove the pig kidney than to try saving it with higher, riskier doses of anti-rejection drugs. “We did the safe thing ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

she had donated her another kidney to her mother. In late March, her immune system began to reject the organ. "With the help ...

For the first time since 2016, I enjoyed time with friends and family without planning around dialysis treatments,” the patient said in a statement.

But he said Looney and her doctors agreed it would be less risky to remove the pig kidney than to try saving it with higher, ...