A woman in Alabama passed a big milestone on Saturday Pig organ transplant -In 61 days, the new kidneys are healthy and full of energy.
“I am a superwoman,” Towana Rooney said to AP communication and laughed that he was overtaking New York for a long walk and continuing to recover. “It’s a new view of life.”
Looney’s lively recovery is the boost of morale in searching for transplantation from animals to humans. Rooney 5th American Given Gene edited pig organs。
“If she looks at her on the street, she will not think she is the only person in the world she is walking around with her functional pig organs.” Langone Health, Dr. Robert Montgomery, said.
Montgomery calls Rooney’s kidney function “absolutely normal.” Doctors hope that they can leave New York temporarily living for a health checkup after transplant for Gazden, Alabama.
“We are very optimistic if this continues to work and keeps working well for a considerable period of time,” he said.
Why scientists use pig organs for transplantation
Scientists are genetically changing pigs, so the organs are more human to address the serious deficiency of transplanted human organs. More than 100,000 people are on the US transplant list, most of them require a kidneys, and thousands of people wait.
So far, pig organ transplantation has been a case of “caring use”.
And a small number of hospitals that are trying them share information about what works and what has not worked in order to prepare for the world’s first official research, which is expected to begin this year. Masu. The United Serapytics, which supplied Rooney’s kidneys, recently called for permission to start a trial with the Food and Pharmaceutical Bureau.
Looney Falace is a “very valuable experience,” and Kai, a Massachusetts General Hospital, led the world’s first pignight transplant last year and cooperated with another pig developer, Aisenesis.
Kawai pointed out that Rooney was much more healthy than his previous patients, so her progress will help her to inform her the next attempt.
“We must learn from each other,” he said.
Transport of Towana Rooney
Rooney donated his kidneys to his mother in 1999. Later, pregnancy complications caused hypertension and damaged the remaining kidneys. She spent eight years on dialysis before concluding that doctors would never get donated organs.
53 -year -old Rooney called for a pig experiment. No one knew how it would work for those who were “highly sensitive” with these overactive antibodies.
The Montgomery team, who was discharged only 11 days after the surgery on November 25, pursued recovery through blood tests and other measurements. About three weeks after the transplant, they captured the subtle signs that rejection had begun. Thanks to the experiment in 2023, a sign that the pig kidney has been looking for a donated deceased for 61 days.
Montgomery said they succeeded in treating Rooney and have since not signs of rejection since then -a few weeks ago, she met a family behind the deceased’s research.
“I’m really happy to know that the decision to use NYU to use my brother, and I’m really happy to know that it helps people,” said Mary Miller Duffy in New York, New York.
Rooney is trying to help others in order, working as an ambassador for those who are reaching out to her through social media, and shares the pig kidney for a long time for a long time for transplantation. I’m wondering about it.
She said she was considering heterogeneous agents at another hospital, but was scared and wondered if she should go.
“I didn’t want to persuade him to do it,” said Rooney.
Instead, she asked if he was a religion, urged him to pray, and asked for “leaving your faith and telling you to you.”
“I love talking to people and I love helping people,” she added. “I want to be some educational parts” to help scientists help others.
There is no way to predict how long Rooney’s new kidneys work, but if they fail, she can get dialysis again.
“The truth is that you really don’t know what the next hurdle is.” We must keep keeping up with her. “
