US woman Towana Looney got a pig’s kidney, has lived for two months with it

US Alabama Get looney Has reached a great milestone by being the only person with a functional pig’s internal body.

The US media tells the story CBS News.

Looney is not the first to get transplant from the pig. In addition to him, four Americans have been transferred to the genetically modified pig’s internal body.

However, he is the first to live healthy for another two months after the transfer. In CBS News, Looney is described as energetic and prosperous.

“I’m a super woman,” Looney comments.

“If you could see him on the street, you wouldn’t foresee that he is the only person in the world who walks around a working pig’s internal body in his body,” said the doctor who led Looney’s transplant Robert Montgomery.

Looney donated the kidney to his mother in 1999. Later, the complications caused by pregnancy raised his blood pressure and damaged the remaining kidney.

He was in dialysis for eight years. During that time, the number of antibodies in his body grew so high that he could not be transplanted from a person. The possibility of xenotransplantation, or transplant from another species, remained.

About three weeks after the transfer, doctors noticed subtle signs that Looney’s body was about to start rejecting the kidney. However, doctors managed to stop the start -up rejection.

Montgomeryn According to Looney’s kidney function, it is now perfectly normal.

According to him, no one knows what kind of complications may be coming. Looney is the first to live with a pig -moved organ for so long.

You must continue to follow her recovery carefully.

“We are quite optimistic about the kidney will work for a very long time,” says Montgomery.