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 in New York.
The release noted Pisano was not a candidate for human heart and kidney transplants due to her chronic medical conditions, which doctors said reduced the likelihood of a good outcome. "Without a heart pump Pisano’s life expectancy would have been measured in days or weeks," according to the release. This unique approach is the first time in the world that LVAD surgery has been done on a dialysis patient with a subsequent plan to transplant a kidney. The measure for success is a chance at a better quality of life and to give Lisa more time to spend with her family," said Nader Moazami, MD, who is the chief of the Division of Heart and Lung Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support for the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Dr. Winfred Woodrow Williams said Slayman has been living with Type 2 diabetes and hypertension. While Slayman received a kidney transplant from a human donor in 2018, it started to fail about a year ago. He resumed dialysis but began experienced dialysis vascular access complications "requiring visits to the hospital every two weeks for de-clotting and surgical revisions," which impacted his quality of life.
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