An Alabama woman passed a major milestone on Saturday by becoming the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant.
Towana Looney, 53, is healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting.
Here’s all we know about her.
Towana Looney and her journey of getting a pig organ transplant
Towana Looney donated her mother a kidney in 1999.
Her other kidney ultimately failed due to high blood pressure brought on by pregnancy-related difficulties, which is extremely rare among living donors.
After eight years on dialysis, doctors determined that she was unlikely to receive a donated organ because she had generated extremely high levels of antibodies that were abnormally poised to attack another human kidney.
Looney therefore sought the pig experiment.
There was no information on how it may impact someone who was “extremely sensitive” to those overactive antibodies.
She underwent the surgery on November 25.
The 53-year-old left the hospital just 11 days after her…