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Recipient of pig kidney transplant reaches a milestone
An Alabama grandmother who was the first patient to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney more than two months ago is now the longest surviving recipient of a pig organ.
toggle caption Rob Stein/NPR NEW YORK — Towana Looney is waiting to check in with her doctors at NYU Health Langone when it registers that she's passing a major milestone in her recovery from a kidney transplant. "If this person lives for a good long time, whatever that means — six months, a year, longer — with a pig kidney, that alone is not going to allow us to conclude that this is a solution to the organ shortage," says Michael Gusmano, a bioethicist at Lehigh University College of Health. The FDA may give the green light to a study this year at the request of Revivicor, a Blacksburg, Va., biotech company developing the organs, including the kidney Looney received.
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