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...
Pool rivals turned friends become 'kidney buddies for life' with lifesaving transplant
Pool rivals turned friends become 'kidney buddies for life' with lifesaving transplant
Memorial Hermann Hospital is actively working to reactivate its kidney transplant program following recent events.
The motive for the alleged data manipulation is unknown.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston released a statement Friday defending a physician who was accused in a New York Times report of manipulating a transplant database, possibly preventing some patients from receiving life-saving organs. Memorial Hermann said in a statement Thursday that a physician, whom the hospital did not identify, made "inappropriate changes" to information in the liver transplant database. The Times report identified him as Dr. J. Steve Bynon, a...
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…
Contractors for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) cut access to tests for transplant patients that could show early signs of organ rejection despite expert physicians advising the opposite, a new report has found. The Health Equity in Transplantation Coalition (HEiTC) announced Friday that a Freedom of Information Act request found that Medicare
Every step of the way the girl called Baby Joy has endured much, including many surgeries to keep her alive, any one of which could have failed her.
Symaria Glenn's family made the decision to donate her organs after she died and ended up saving five people's lives. One of them was the life of her father.
Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston has shut down its kidney and liver transplant programs after it was discovered that one of its doctors altered records in a government transplant database that may have prevented them from getting new organs.
Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center has shut down its liver and kidney transplant programs and launched an investigation after a surgeon, Dr. Steve Bynon, allegedly made “inappropriate changes” to medical records that made patients inactivate on the transplant waiting list