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First-ever combined heart pump and pig kidney transplant gives new hope to patient with terminal illness - EurekAlert


Surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed the first-ever combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery in a 54-year-old woman with heart and kidney failure—a confluence of advances that showcase the possibility and hope of modern medicine.

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