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Lisa Pisano received the kidney and an implanted device to pump her failing heart in April. Her heart medications damaged the pig kidney, forcing doctors to remove it and return her to dialysis.

Richard Slayman died almost two months after the historic procedure, the Boston hospital where he had the transplant said Saturday. At 62, he had the transplant to treat his end-stage kidney disease.

Tampa General's Transplant Institute had a record year, due in part to innovative technology that expands the donor pool. But thousands of Floridians are still waiting for help.

Program host Dr. Joe Sirven examines the transformative effect of organ donation and transplantation.

The 12-floor, 565,000-square-foot building, adjacent to the hospital's Davis Islands campus, will be named for the Taneja family, major donors to the project. It is slated to open in 2027.

Researchers have externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human and watched it successfully filter blood. The experiment is a step toward one day trying the technique in patients with liver failure.

The national waiting list for an organ transplant stands at more than 103,000 people, including 5,200 in Florida, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network.

The 565,000-square-foot tower, slated for the northern end of the Davis Islands campus, which will have room for 144 beds, 32 operating suites and increased intensive care capacity.

Lawrence Faucette was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart in September.

A novel program in Tennessee aims to interest more Black and other minority medical students in organ transplants, to help ease troubling disparities.