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A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the first-ever patient to undergo combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery, doctors announced. The patient, Lisa Pisano, had heart failure and end-stage kidney disease that required routine dialysis. She was not considered a candidate for human heart and kidney transplant due to her having […]
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Publish date : 2024-04-24 20:57:03
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