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 ...

US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically ... which also supplied the pig used in a breakthrough kidney transplant on a brain-dead patient in New York in October.

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 ...

Surgeons in the US have carried out the world’s first transplant of a pig kidney into a human ... regimen of the second-ever pig-to-human heart transplant, performed by the University of ...

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 ...

with two prior pig heart transplant recipients and now the first kidney transplant patient only surviving for around two months after the procedure. Slayman’s family said that the enormous ...

The 57-year-old patient with a terminal heart ... pig heart, has died Tuesday, the University of Maryland Medical Center in the United States reported. David Bennett had received the transplant ...