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Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal.<\/p>\n

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Surgeons removed a genetically engineered pig\u2019s kidney from an Alabama woman after she experienced acute organ rejection, NYU Langone Health officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n

Towana Looney, 53, lived with the kidney for 130 days, which is longer than anyone else has tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal. She has resumed dialysis, hospital officials said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Robert Montgomery, Ms. Looney\u2019s surgeon and the director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, said that the so-called explant was not a setback for the field of xenotransplantation \u2014 the effort to use organs from animals to replace those that have failed in humans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the longest one of these organs has lasted,\u201d he said in an interview, adding that Ms. Looney had other medical conditions that might have complicated her prognosis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAll this takes time,\u201d he said. \u201cThis game is going to be won by incremental improvements, singles and doubles, not trying to swing for the fences and get a home run.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further treatment of Ms. Looney might have salvaged the organ, but she and her medical team decided against it, Dr. Montgomery said.<\/p>\n

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Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal.Surgeons removed a genetically engineered pig\u2019s kidney from an Alabama woman after she experienced acute organ rejection, NYU Langone Health officials said on Friday.Towana Looney, 53, lived with the kidney for 130 days, which is longer than anyone else has tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal. She has resumed dialysis, hospital officials said.Dr. Robert Montgomery, Ms. Looney\u2019s surgeon and the director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, said that the so-called explant was not a setback for the field of xenotransplantation \u2014 the effort to use organs from animals to replace those that have failed in humans.\u201cThis is the longest one of these organs has lasted,\u201d he said in an interview, adding that Ms. Looney had other medical conditions that might have complicated her prognosis.\u201cAll this takes time,\u201d he said. \u201cThis game is going to be won by incremental improvements, singles and doubles, not trying to swing for the fences and get a home run.\u201dFurther treatment of Ms. Looney might have salvaged the organ, but she and her medical team decided against it, Dr. Montgomery said.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25807,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25808,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25805\/revisions\/25808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}