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 ...

The patient, Lisa Pisano, had a mechanical heart pump implanted days before getting the transplant ... edited pig kidney into a living person, and the first with the pig’s thymus combined.

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 ...

Daughter Brittany Harvill and Lisa Pisano_1 Lisa Pisano, 54, has become the first person to ever undergo a combined heart pump and pig kidney transplant operation. Pictured: Pisano (right ...

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 ...

For the first time, surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed a combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant, helping a 54-year-old woman with heart and kidney failure.

A 54-year-old woman from New Jersey became the first patient to undergo a combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant, according to a medical center in New York. NYU Langone Health on ...

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 ...