(25 Jan 2025)
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New York – 24 January 2025
1. Various of Towana Looney, pig kidney transplant recipient, walking into NYU Langone Health for her regular check in with doctors following her transplant
2. Looney with Dr. Jeffrey Stern during a check up
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Robert Montgomery, NYU Langone Health:
"We’re hitting a really important milestone. Towana will be the first human to receive a pig organ and have it function past two months."
4. Various of Looney with Dr. Jeffrey Stern during a check up
5. UPSOUND (English) Dr. Jeffrey Stern: "And then we are making more and more plans."
UPSOUND (English) Towana Looney: "For me to go home? Alright."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Robert Montgomery, NYU Langone Health:
"We’re going past that two month mark. Her kidney function is absolutely normal, and the biopsies that we’ve done from the kidney look great. We’re quite optimistic that this is going to continue to work and work well for a significant period of time."
6. Various of Looney with Dr. Jeffrey Stern during a check up
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Towana Looney, pig kidney transplant recipient:
"Used to, I would get short winded and have to stop. Now whoever walking with me want to stop."
8. Various of Looney’s care team during rounds
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Robert Montgomery, NYU Langone Health:
"She’s been willing to really put herself out there and to help other people, you know, who are inquiring about, you know, could I benefit from one of these pig organs?"
10. UPSOUND (English) Dr. Robert Montgomery: "And I’m sure speaking to you helped a lot."
UPSOUND (English) Towana Looney: "It did, his sister called me."
UPSOUND (English) Dr. Robert Montgomery: "Oh you’ve spoken to them on the phone?"
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Towana Looney, pig kidney transplant recipient:
"I didn’t want to persuade him whether to do or not to do."
12. Various of Dr. Montgomery
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Towana Looney, pig kidney transplant recipient:
"I love talking to people. I love helping people."
14. Various of Looney taking her medication
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Robert Montgomery, NYU Langone Health:
"If you saw her on the street, you would have no idea that she’s the only person in the world walking around with a pig organ inside them that’s functioning."
16. Various of Looney taking her medication
STORYLINE:
An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting.
“I feel good,” Towana Looney told The Associated Press, laughing about outpacing family members on long walks around New York City as she continues her recovery.
Looney’s vibrant recovery is a morale boost in the quest to make animal-to-human transplants a reality. Only four other Americans have received hugely experimental transplants of gene-edited pig organs – two hearts and two kidneys – and none lived more than two months.
“If you saw her on the street, you would have no idea that she’s the only person in the world walking around with a pig organ inside them that’s functioning,” said Dr. Robert Montgomery of NYU Langone Health, who led Looney’s transplant.
Montgomery called Looney’s kidney function is “absolutely normal” and doctors hope she can leave New York – where she’s temporarily living for post-transplant checkups – for her Gadsden, Alabama, home in about another month.
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