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She was too sick for a traditional transplant. So she received a pig kidney and a heart pump
Hartford Courant· 1 day agoDoctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a...
US surgeons transplant pig kidney to live patient for second time
AFP via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoSurgeons in the United States have transplanted a modified pig kidney into a living person for the...
She Didn't Qualify for a Transplant—So Now She Has Two Pig Organs
Wired News· 23 hours agoA 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a genetically...
Surgeons perform first combined heart pump and pig kidney transplant - KVIA
ABC 7 El Paso· 20 hours agoThe subject, 54-year-old Lisa Pisano of New Jersey, had heart failure and end-stage kidney disease...
New Jersey woman gets first-ever pig kidney transplant with mechanical heart pump
United Press International via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoRobert Montgomery, director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute. Nearly 104,000 people...for a ...
Grandmother without long to live gets breakthrough pig kidney transplant
New York Post· 19 hours agoPig kidney transplants are far from being a routine surgery. The Food and Drug Administration grants...
NYU Doctors Perform First-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant Combined With Heart Pump Implant
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoAnother milestone in pig-to-human transplantation has been crossed, with doctors at New York...
A woman with failing kidneys receives genetically modified pig organs
NPR· 1 day agoIt was terrible." Pisano wasn't eligible to get a human organ transplant because she had too many...