Shortly before the rejection began, Looney had suffered an infection related to her prior time on dialysis and her immune-suppressing anti-rejection drugs were slightly lowered, Montgomery said.
Doctors remove pig kidney from an Alabama woman after a record 130 days
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NYU transplant surgeon Dr. Robert Montgomery said patients like those in Mass General’s pilot study could be “the sweet spot” for early xenotransplants - not yet too sick from years of dialysis but unlikely to survive long enough for a human transplant.
Tim Andrews of New Hampshire is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney
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