Posted on 01/25/2025 10:53:27 AM PST by BenLurkin
An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting.
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Looney’s vibrant recovery is a morale boost in the quest to make animal-to-human transplants a reality. Only four other Americans have received hugely experimental transplants of gene-edited pig organs – two hearts and two kidneys – and none lived more than two months.
Montgomery called Looney’s kidney function “absolutely normal.” Doctors hope she can leave New York – where she’s temporarily living for post-transplant checkups – for her Gadsden, Alabama, home in about another month.
Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable human organs.
Pig organ transplants so far have been “compassionate use” cases, experiments the Food and Drug Administration allows only in special circumstances for people out of other options.
And the handful of hospitals trying them are sharing information of what worked and what didn’t, in preparation for the world’s first formal studies of xenotransplantation... United Therapeutics, which supplied Looney’s kidney, recently asked the Food and Drug Administration for permission to begin a trial.
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Looney is not a moose-limb, I take it. lol. I can’t wait to see the rest of this thread.
Funny how adverse to death people have become. None of us are making it out of this alive.
Excellent!!
Praying the pig (of the kidney she received) had not had the Swine mNRA vaxxine ... that they began giving in 2018.
I had open heart surgery back in June of last year, I had my aortic valve replaced with a pig valve, does that count ??
Would eating bacon be considered cannibalism?
Close enough!
Keep on trucking, FRiend.
Good for you. I was about to write something about people who receive parts from animals and survive and are glad to have them.
You’re absolutely right, but why not try to hang around as long as possible? 🙂
Man! I really misinterpreted the headline. I was going through my memory trying to recall any info on a pig organ. Hammond, pipe, Wurlitzer …
Continued good health!
She’s doing fine, eating pig slop, and pissing in the barnyard.
I believe the answer is yes. I wonder if she craves bacon or sausage. Not kidney friendly foods.
I was thinking she might have sudden urges for mud baths.
God bless her!
She must have quite a few people at her bacon call.
MEGA GROAN!! LOL!
I believe but am not certain, that the clauticordial enzymac exudates from strips of fried bacon become blood borne and sooth the swinascious meta cells in the transplanted kidney.
She was so eager to have this surgery that the oink wasn’t even dry on the release forms before they rolled her on in.
The medical team knew it was a success when she awoke from the procedure and immediately squealed with delight.
Now everybody’s rooting for her!
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