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Woman receives pig kidney transplant, walks out of hospital days later: ‘Second chance'
[FoxNews] An Alabama woman has successfully received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant at NYU Langone Health.This was the seventh pig organ transplant completed by NYU Langone surgeons. Towana Looney, 53, miraculously walked out of the hospital just a few days following the procedure. In an NYU Langone press conference, Looney expressed feeling "overjoyed" and "blessed to have received this gift – a second chance at life." "I want to give courage to those out there on dialysis," she said. Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News senior medical analyst and NYU Langone clinical professor of medicine, joined "America Reports" on Wednesday to share how this should bring hope for the future of transplant medicine. "We have a great shortage of body organs," he said. "And even if we get people to donate, we’re still going to have a big shortage … so we’ve got to do something." "We can bio-engineer them, or we can use them from other species, [which is] called xenotransplant." Posted by: Skidmark 2024-12-21 |
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