Too Ill for Typical Transplants, Woman Gets a Pig Kidney and Heart Pump Instead

(MedPage Today) -- A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the first-ever patient to undergo combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery, doctors announced. The patient, Lisa Pisano, had heart failure and end...
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