(CNN) — Lisa Pisano, the first person to receive a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney, died Sunday, according to NYU Langone Health, where she had the surgery. Pisano received ...

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. NYU Langone Health on ...

(CNN) — The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney has been completed at NYU Langone Health, the system said Wednesday. The subject, ...

Daughter Brittany Harvill and Lisa Pisano_1Lisa Pisano, 54, has become the first person to ever undergo a combined heart pump and pig kidney transplant operation. Pictured: Pisano (right) with her ...

NEW YORK -- In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump ...