Recipient of first pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later The first combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery was performed at NYU Langone in April of ...

Lisa Pisano, the woman who received the world’s first heart pump and pig kidney combined transplant passed away Sunday at the age of 54, CBS News reported. Pisano, a grandmother who underwent ...

A grandmother died on Sunday, months after she received a combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant, according to the hospital that performed the surgeries. Lisa Pisano ...

She was the first patient to receive both a heart pump and an organ transplant ... second person to receive a kidney transplanted from a genetically modified pig, and who lived with the organ ...

The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney has been completed ... She had both heart and kidney failure but was not a candidate for a combined ...

(CNN) — The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney ... both heart and kidney failure but was not a candidate for a combined heart and ...