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 ...

After 47 days with the transplant, doctors had to remove the pig kidney and put her back on dialysis. AP Despite the dialysis and implanted heart pump, Pisano eventually entered hospice care and ...

She was the first patient to receive both a heart pump and an organ transplant, doctors said. By Roni Caryn Rabin A 54-year-old New Jersey woman who was the second person to receive a kidney ...

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 ...

doctors had to remove the pig kidney and put Pisano back on dialysis after the organ was damaged by her heart medications. Despite the dialysis and implanted heart pump, Pisano eventually entered ...

Lisa Pisano, the first person to receive a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney, died Sunday, according to NYU Langone Health, where she had the surgery. Pisano received ...