Woman breaks record after 2 months with pig kidney: ‘absolutely normal’

Doctor Robert Montgomery of Nyu Langone Health said the patient’s renal function is ” absolutely normal ”. Doctors expect her to leave New York-where she is temporarily living for post-transplant exams-for her home in Gadsden, Alabama, in about a month, according to AP.

She had been waiting for a human kidney since 2017. Looney donated one of his kidney to his mother in 1999 and was eight years in dialysis after a complication during pregnancy damaged his remaining kidney. Despite the wait, he could not find a compatible donor.

Only four other Americans received genetically modified pig organs. Two of them were transplanted with hearts and the other two with kidneys. None of them lived more than two months.

Doctors claim to be optimistic with Towana’s performance. Scientists are testing and genetically altering pigs so that their organs are ” more human ” to deal with a serious scarcity of people organs.