Woman becomes 1st patient to undergo combined heart pump implant, pig kidney transplant

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." "It would have taken years for her to find a match for a human kidney transplant," the release noted.Doctors performed the surgery on Pisano in two stages, starting by surgically implanting the heart pump -- a device called a left ventricular assist device -- on April 4.

The procedure makes her the second living recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney, as well as the first to receive the thymus. 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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