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Grandmother gets new lease on life from heart pump, pig kidney [USA TODAY]

United Therapeutics Corporation (UTHR) 
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Lisa Pisano was suffering from heart failure, needed regular dialysis and had just fallen and broken her foot when she arrived at NYU Langone Health. She'd been increasingly sick for years, suffering multiple heart attacks and a bypass surgery. She needed both a new heart pump and a new kidney, but because she was on dialysis, she wasn't a good candidate for the heart pump, and because of her heart problems she wouldn't have qualified for a kidney transplant, said Dr. Robert Montgomery, chair of the department of surgery and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute . "She was in a Catch-22," he said. Pisano was given two choices: she could accept her fate and say goodbye to her beloved grandchildren or take a chance on an artificial heart pump plus a kidney from a gene-edited pig. She opted for the chance. On April 4, surgeons implanted the heart pump, a device called a left ventricular assist device or LVAD. She was placed on continuous dialysis and bedrest for eight d Show less Read more
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