Doctors in New York City performed the first-ever combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant on a terminally ill patient. Surgeons at NYU Langone Health carried out the first-of-its ...

Lisa Pisano, the first person to receive a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney, died Sunday, according to NYU Langone Health, where she had the surgery. Pisano received ...

The procedure also represented the first combined mechanical heart pump and organ transplant surgery ... surgeons successfully implanted a pig kidney with 10 gene edits into a female patient ...

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 first-ever transplant of a xenothymokidney into a living human recipient; - The first-ever combined mechanical heart pump and organ transplant; and - The first-ever xenotransplant into a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The kidney was removed Friday, The Times said. United Therapeutics Corporation, the biotech company that created the pig used in the transplant, said the organ had functioned well until the ...

A 54-year-old grandmother - the first person to receive a mechanical heart pump along with a gene-edited pig kidney has died, as revealed by NYU Langone Health. Lisa Pisano received the transplant ...

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 ...