In a landmark surgery, NYU Langone Health has performed the first combined mechanical heart pump and gene ... It is only the second transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney into a living person ...

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 surgically ...

WEDNESDAY, June 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- A woman who was the second person to ever receive a kidney from a genetically ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Another milestone in pig-to-human transplantation has been crossed, with doctors at New York University Langone today announcing the world’s first combination pig kidney and heart pump transplant.

BOTELHO | The National Desk TOPICS: A 54-year-old woman from New Jersey became the first patient to undergo a combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant, according to a medical center ...

(CNN) — The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney ... both heart and kidney failure but was not a candidate for a combined heart and ...

CNN By Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney has been ...