Woman receives pig kidney transplant, walks out of hospital days later: ‘Second chance'

Cross-species organ transplants are 'the future' of transplant medicine, say NYU Langone doctors

, --December 20, 2024

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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. ---More...

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