First-Ever Combined Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant Gives New Hope to Patient with Terminal Illness
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed the first-ever combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery in a 54-year-old woman with heart and kidney failure—a confluence of advances that showcase the possibility and hope of modern medicine. Doctors…
Two-Month Study of Pig Kidney Xenotransplantation Gives New Hope to the Future of the Organ Supply
After 61 days of observation, NYU Langone Health doctors this month completed the longest-documented case of a genetically engineered pig kidney functioning in a human body. The procedure, known as a xenotransplant, which involves the transplant of an animal organ…
