WEDNESDAY, June 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- A woman who was the second person to ever receive a kidney from a genetically ...
A woman who received a kidney from a gene-edited pig is back on dialysis just 47 days after the surgery as doctors had to remove the gradually failing organ. According to NYU Langone Health, Lisa ...
The organ, from a genetically modified animal, failed because of a lack of blood flow, surgeons said, but did not appear to have been rejected by the body. By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons removed the ...
No rejection, just a matter of blood flow. I understand why this is only an option for patients who aren't eligible for human transplant, and so by definition are likely quite sick. (And then have ...
Surgeons in New York have removed a pig kidney less than two months after transplanting it into Lisa Pisano, a 54-year-old woman with kidney failure who also needed a mechanical heart pump.
NEW YORK — Surgeons removed the kidney of a genetically engineered pig from a critically ill patient last week after the organ was damaged by inadequate blood flow related to a heart pump that ...
Rick Slayman, 62, became the first-ever recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney at Massachusetts General Hospital on March 16. Slayman had end-stage kidney disease and previously received a human kidney ...
One of the marvels of modern biotechnology was the pig kidney transplant, but less than two months after it was made to replace the human organ, surgeons had to remove it. The kidney from the ...
Doctors say Lisa Pisano, who received a pig kidney transplant, is back on dialysis after surgeons removed the gradually failing organ. Pisano was the second person to receive a kidney from a gene ...
A woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis because surgeons had to remove the gradually failing organ after just 47 days. Lisa Pisano was the second person to receive a ...
FILE - Lisa Pisano looks at photos of her dog after her surgeries at NYU Langone Health in New York on Monday, April 22, 2024. Doctors had to remove a transplanted pig kidney from Pisano and put ...