Lisa Pisano, the 54-year-old New Jersey resident and second-ever recipient of a pig kidney and mechanical heart, has died. Pisano received the heart pump on April 4, and eight days later ...

WASHINGTON — A woman who received a pig kidney ... heart medications. Despite the dialysis and implanted heart pump, Pisano eventually entered hospice care and died Sunday, NYU Langone ...

Then doctors at NYU Langone Health devised a novel one-two punch: Implant a mechanical pump to keep her heart beating and days later transplant a kidney from a genetically modified pig.

The transplant ... but whose heart continued to pump through mechanical assistance. The 32 days represent “the longest period in which a genetically modified pig kidney has functioned in a ...

The pig liver began producing bile two hours after the transplant ... “The heart functions as a pump to pump blood to the whole human body, and the major function of the kidney is to produce ...

But the devil is in the details Woman Becomes First Person to Receive Both Pig Kidney Transplant and Heart Pump A woman with life-threatening heart and kidney disease became the second person ever ...

(CNN) — Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig ... heart just functions as a heart to pump the blood. The major function of the ...

The combined heart and kidney transplant, performed last November at MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital in Charleston, is believed to be the first successful procedure of its kind in South ...