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In a groundbreaking medical achievement, surgeons at NYU Langone Hospital have given a new lease on life to a woman from New Jersey. Fifty-four-year-old Lisa Pisano, who suffered from extreme kidney and heart failure and couldn't qualify for a traditional transplant, received a historic combined implant of a heart pump and a genetically modified pig kidney.
Dr. Robert Montgomery of NYU Langone Hospital highlighted the significance of this procedure, emphasizing that it represents a major step forward in medical innovation. Pisano's condition, which had. . .
