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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record ... system was reactivating after the transplant. Those factors may have combined to damage the new kidney, he said. In May of last year ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record ... system was reactivating after the transplant. Those factors may have combined to damage the new kidney, he said.

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 ...

Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable use of animal organs remains a distant goal, but doctors took some hope since the pig kidney did its blood-filtering work ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a ... was reactivating after the transplant. Those factors may have combined to damage the new kidney, he said.