Surgeons perform first combined heart pump and pig kidney transplant
The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney has been completed at NYU Langone Health, the system said Wednesday.
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The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney has been completed at NYU Langone Health, the system said Wednesday.
New Jersey native Lisa Pisano has gotten a new lease on life, thanks to a combined transplant of a mechanical heart pump and a gene-edited pig kidney.
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-kind operation on Lisa Pisano in two stages over the course of nine days earlier this month, according to a Wednesday statement from NYU Langone. Pisano,…
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