In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill New Jersey woman received a pig kidney transplant and a surgically implanted mechanical heart pump.
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health renowned academic medical center lin New York, have performed the world's first combined heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant on a woman with end-stage kidney disease.
A New Jersey woman who was near death has received a transplanted pig kidney, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. Doctors at NYU Langone Health say 54-year-old Lisa Pisano is recovering well. She is only the second patient ever to receive a pig kidney. The first, a man transplanted last month in Boston, also is faring well. Pisano was far sicker, suffering a combination of heart and kidney failure. It's the latest in a string of attempts to make...
A month ago, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a kidney transplant from a gene-edited pig. Now, a team of researchers from NYU Langone Health reports that Lisa Pisano, a 54-year-old woman from New Jersey, has become the second. Her new kidney has just a single genetic modification—an approach that researchers hope…
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Kettering General Hospital has become the first hospital in Europe to fit 100 of a new type of recording device to measure heart rhythm for up to three years. The device – called an implantation loop recorder - is an inch (2.5cm) long and is fitted just under the skin of a patient’s chest and used to diagnose infrequent heart rhythm disturbances like atrial fibrillation (unusually irregular/fast heart rate). Because such disturbances can occur infrequently it can be difficult to determine what...
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Kettering and Northampton general hospitals have celebrated the long service of colleagues who have worked for the NHS for a combined total of 5,570 years. Events at Kettering General Hospital and Northampton General Hospital, celebrated colleagues marking 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50 years of continuous service in the NHS. Together the hospitals had 192 colleagues with long service including 19 with more than 40 years of service, 64 with more than 30 years and 109 with more than 25 years. Richard...
A group of archaeologists, led by researchers from the University of Tokyo, announce the discovery of a part of a Roman villa built before the middle of the first century. This villa, near the town of Nola in southwestern Italy's Campania region, was found beneath a more recent, but still ancient building from the 2nd century.