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  2. Lung transplantation - Wikipedia

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    Lung transplantation, or pulmonary transplantation, is a surgical procedure in which one or both lungs are replaced by lungs from a donor. Donor lungs can be retrieved from a living or deceased donor. A living donor can only donate one lung lobe. With some lung diseases, a recipient may only need to receive a single lung.

  3. A life-saving step: What's required to be a living donor - AOL

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    May 5—Candidates must be in optimal health to enter the Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center's living donor program. For Spokane, eligible recipients wait on an organ transplant typically ...

  4. Organ transplantation - Wikipedia

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    In living donors, the donor remains alive and donates a renewable tissue, cell, or fluid (e.g., blood, skin), or donates an organ or part of an organ in which the remaining organ can regenerate or take on the workload of the rest of the organ (primarily single kidney donation, partial donation of liver, lung lobe, small bowel).

  5. Lung surgery - Wikipedia

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    Lung transplant is defined as ‘an operation to remove and replace a diseased lung with a healthy human lung from a donor. A donor is most commonly known to be a deceased person, however, in very rare cases a section of the lung that is required for a patient can be transplanted from a living donor.

  6. Lung Transplant Recipient Who Married Donor's Brother Says ...

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    Related: Chicago Cop with Cancer in One Lung, COVID Damage in the Other Gets Successful Double Transplant On Sept. 15, 2019, she had a lung transplant at the Cleveland Clinic.

  7. United Network for Organ Sharing - Wikipedia

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    54-1327878 [2]: Legal status: 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization [2] Headquarters: Richmond, Virginia, U.S. [3]: Coordinates: Services: Manages the U.S. organ transplant system under contract with the federal government by bringing together transplant and organ procurement professionals and volunteers in order to make life-saving organ transplants possible.

  8. List of organ transplant donors and recipients - Wikipedia

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    First transplant was unsuccessful. The first successful lung transplant was performed in 1983 by Joel Cooper. 1963 [3] First human heart transplant: Christiaan Barnard: Louis Washkansky: Denise Darvall: Transplant was only good for 18 days. Washkansky died on December 21, 1967. December 3, 1967 18 days [4] First Heart and Lung Transplant ...

  9. Transplantable organs and tissues - Wikipedia

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    Prior to operating on the recipient, the transplant surgeon inspects the donor lung(s) for signs of damage or disease. If the lung or lungs are approved, then the recipient is connected to an IV line and various monitoring equipment, including pulse oximetry. The patient will be given general anesthesia, and a machine will breathe for them. [1]