Towana Looney, who received a groundbreaking gene-edited pig kidney transplant at NYU Langone Health, marked a significant milestone with a visit from her surgeons, Dr. Jayme Locke and Dr. Robert Montgomery. Photos capture Looney's meeting with the medical team, highlighting the success of the innovative transplant.
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Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil, the H. Leon Pachter, MD, Professor of Surgery, chair of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine Department of Surgery, and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, reviews a monitor during the gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery at NYU Langone Health in New York City on Nov. 25, 2024.
The gene-edited pig kidney moments after blood vessels are reattached and the organ is reperfused with Towana Looneys blood at NYU Langone Health in New York City on Nov. 25, 2024. Looney is recuperating well after her transplant, which was announced Tuesday. She was discharged from the hospital just 11 days after surgery to continue recovery in a nearby apartment although temporarily readmitted this week while her medications are adjusted. Doctors expect her to return home to Alabama in three months. If the pig kidney were to fail, she could begin dialysis again.
Looney donated a kidney to her mother in 1999. Later a complication during pregnancy caused high blood pressure that damaged her remaining kidney, which eventually failed. It’s incredibly rare for living donors to develop kidney failure although those who do are given extra priority on the transplant list.
Those disappointing outcomes didn’t dissuade Looney, who was starting to feel worse on dialysis but, Locke said, hadn't developed heart disease or other complications. The FDA eventually allowed her transplant at NYU, where Locke collaborated with Montgomery.
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