Montgomery's team later performed the first-ever combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery in a living patient in April. Both recipients died within a few months ...

United Therapeutics in downtown Silver Spring has received regulatory approval to begin clinical trials for pig-to ... the first combined mechanical heart pump and organ transplant, and the ...

These medications often are changed, combined ... battery-operated pumps implanted in the body to assist the heart with pumping. They were initially considered a way to support the heart function for ...

Organ transplantation is the most effective therapy ... The 1990s saw the resurgence in interest in HMP for kidney preservation as both the demand for organs and reliance on ECD donors grew ...

Mount Sinai Transplant Surgeon Dr. Sandy Florman says Godbee's surgery was the first heart-liver-kidney transplant in New York and took about 22 hours to complete.

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