Her kidneys failed. Heart, too. A pig was the answer
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Doctors told 54-year-old Lisa Pisano that she had weeks, even days to live, because both her heart and kidneys were failing. The double-whammy made a regular organ transplant impossible, but the dire situation meant surgeons at NYU Langone could instead try a more experimental approach using genetically altered pigs.
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(CNN) — The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-ed…
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