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 New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a genetically engineered pig kidney. The surgery, carried out at NYU Langone Health on April 12, also involved ...
In a landmark surgery, NYU Langone Health has performed the first combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited kidney transplant surgery on a patient with a special profile. Lisa Pisano, a ...
The patient was not considered a candidate for traditional organ transplants. In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene ...
Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil, (left) the H. Leon Pachter, MD, Professor and chair of the Department of Surgery and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, and Jeffrey Stern, MD ...
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. The subject, 54-year-old ...
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 ...
We may earn a commission from links on this page. The gene-edited pig kidney with thymus is removed from its transport container to be prepared for transplantation Photo: Joe Carrotta/NYU Langone ...
NEW YORK -- In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump ...
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 ...