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A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a genetically engineered pig kidney. The surgery, carried out at NYU Langone Health on April 12, also involved transplanting the pig\u2019s thymus gland to help prevent rejection.<\/p>\n

The patient, Lisa Pisano, had a mechanical heart pump implanted days before getting the transplant. She was facing heart failure and end-stage kidney disease and wasn\u2019t eligible for a human organ transplant because of several other medical conditions. Her medical team says she\u2019s recovering well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel fantastic,\u201d Pisano said from her hospital bed over Zoom during a press conference on Wednesday. \u201cWhen this opportunity came, I said, \u2018I\u2019m gonna take advantage of it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first instance of a patient with a mechanical heart pump receiving an organ transplant of any kind. It is the second known transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney into a living person, and the first with the pig\u2019s thymus combined.<\/p>\n

The series of procedures was performed over a span of nine days. In the first, surgeons implanted the heart pump, a device called a left ventricular assist device, to replace the function of her failing heart. It\u2019s used in patients who are awaiting heart transplantation or otherwise aren\u2019t a candidate for a heart transplant. Without it, Pisano\u2019s life expectancy would have been just days or weeks.<\/p>\n

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