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

Pisano’s first procedure, on April 4, was the heart pump implant. Without the pump, her life expectancy was either days or weeks, according to doctors at NYU Langone. The pig kidney transplant ...

On Thursday morning, the American Heart ... kidney, and thousands die waiting. Before Looney’s transplant only four other Americans had received experimental xenotransplants of gene-edited pig ...

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 ...

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 kidney ...

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 ...

FILKE - Pig kidney transplant recipient ... her immune system was reactivating after the transplant. Those factors may have combined to damage the new kidney, he said. Rejection is a common ...