Washington, United States:
An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record for 130 days, the limb was removed after rejecting her body and returned to the dialysis, doctors on Friday made a disappointment in the ongoing discovery for the announcement of the announcement of the announcement of the announcement.
Towana Looney Nyu Langon is recovering well with surgery to remove Langon on April 4 and has returned home to Gadsden, Alabama. In a statement, he thanked his doctors for “the opportunity to be part of this incredible research”.
“Although the result of this is not what anyone wanted, I know a lot of a pig had been learned with a kidney for 130 days – and it could help and inspire many others in his journey to overcome the kidney disease,” Loni said.
Scientists are genetically transforming pigs, so their organs are more human to overcome implantable human organs. The US transplant list has more than 100,000 people who require kidneys, and thousands of people are waiting.
Only four other Americans had received experimental xenotransplants of gene -composed pig organs before Loni’s implantation – two hearts and two kidneys that did not last for more than two months. Those recipients, who were seriously ill before surgery, died.
Now researchers are trying these transplants in a little less sick patients like Loni. A new Hampshire person receiving a pig kidney in January has worked well and a rigorous study of pig kidney transplant is ready to start in this summer. Chinese researchers recently announced a successful kidney xenotransplant.
Loni had been on dialysis since 2016 and had not qualified for a regular transplant – her body was unusually primed to reject a human kidney. So he searched for a pig kidney and worked well – he called himself a “superwoman” and lived for longer than someone with a gene -composed pig. From 25 November to the beginning of April, when his body began rejecting him.
Nyu xenotransplant pioneer Dr. Robert Montgomery, Loni Surgeon, said that rejection is being investigated. But he said Loni and his doctors agreed that the pig would be less risky to remove the kidney, which is trying to save it with the high, risky dose of anti-free, risk.
“We worked safely,” Montgomery told the Associated Press. “She is not worse than before (xenotransplant) and she will tell you that she is better because she had a 4 1/2 month break from dialysis.”
Montgomery stated that shortly before rejection begins, Loni had faced an infection related to its pre-time on dialysis and its immune-domain-antiti-free drugs were slightly reduced. At the same time, his immune system was re -activated after the transplant. Those factors may have combined to damage the new kidney, he said.
Rejection is a common danger even after implants of human organs, and sometimes patients cost their new organ. Doctors face a balance act in reducing patients’ immune systems, which is sufficient to preserve the new organ allowing them to fight infection.
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