{"id":74346,"date":"2025-04-11T20:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=74346"},"modified":"2025-04-11T20:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:12:07","slug":"pig-kidney-removed-from-alabama-woman-a-record-130-days-after-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/11\/pig-kidney-removed-from-alabama-woman-a-record-130-days-after-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Pig kidney removed from Alabama woman a record 130 days after transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1CLjT1.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Pig kidney transplant recipient Towana Looney had suffered an infection linked to her prior time on dialysis. Dialysis is a treatment for people whose kidneys are failing. The two main causes of kidney failure are diabetes and high blood pressure (AP)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Doctors say they\u2019ve\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/pig-kidney-transplant-alabama-fda-recovery-b2665839.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">removed a pig kidney from an Alabama woman<\/a> after she lived with the organ for a record 130 days.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/medical\/pig-kidney-removed-from-alabama-woman-a-record-130-days-after-transplant\/ar-AA1CLd8E?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=ed8569407c4348b9f6b3032e569acaa8&amp;ei=43\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Doctors say they\u2019ve\u00a0removed a pig kidney from an Alabama woman after she lived with the organ for a record 130 days.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pig-kidney-transplant.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74347,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74346\/revisions\/74347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}