Montgomery's team later performed the first-ever combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery in a living patient in April. Both recipients died within a few months ...

United Therapeutics in downtown Silver Spring has received regulatory approval to begin clinical trials for pig-to ... the first combined mechanical heart pump and organ transplant, and the ...

Prescription medications are the most effective treatments for the management of heart failure. These medications often are changed, combined, or adjusted as the ... is used to help a weak heart pump ...

A team of surgeons from New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System performed the first heart-liver-kidney transplant in the state of New York. The team performed the same triple-organ ...

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