Lisa Pisano , the grandmother who was the first to receive a combined pig kidney and mechanical heart pump transplant has died. This happened three months after the innovative pair of surgeries.
She had successfully had both surgeries in April and appeared to be recovering, but her health deteriorated and she died on Sunday, July 7.
While still alive the doctors had to remove the pig kidney 47 days after the procedures since the heart medications damaged the organ.
She was placed back on dialysis and continued to use the heart pump, but eventually went into hospice care, and didn't make it alive
She had successfully had both surgeries in April and appeared to be recovering, but her health deteriorated and she died on Sunday, July 7.
While still alive the doctors had to remove the pig kidney 47 days after the procedures since the heart medications damaged the organ.
She was placed back on dialysis and continued to use the heart pump, but eventually went into hospice care, and didn't make it alive
