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Ann Harrison died aged 56 at Toronto General Hospital on April 20, 2001, of a brain aneurysm unrelated to her operation. [4] She was the world's longest surviving double-lung recipient until her 15-year record was broken in 2005 by cystic fibrosis patient Howell Graham of Wilmington, North Carolina.
1988: First successful long-term double lung transplant for cystic fibrosis by Joel Cooper (Toronto). In 1988, Vera Dwyer, a woman from County Sligo in Ireland, was diagnosed with an irreversible, chronic and fibrotic lung disease. Later on that year, she received a single lung transplant in the UK.
Argentine singer and actor. He died after complications of a heart–lung transplant. November 20, 2009 45 days [31] Ann Harrison (1944–2001) Recipient and long term survivor of the world's first human double-lung transplant November 26, 1986 15 years [90] Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick (1983–2019) American soprano. September 2009 10 years ...
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A 22-year-old man received a double lung transplant earlier this month after being on life support for 70 days. ... Foertsch said Allard was the longest patient that M Health Fairview had ever ...
But she also developed lung troubles and doctors worried she’d need a liver and double lung transplant. ... “That was a very, very long process,” she says. “It took two years for my lungs ...
Cooper graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1964, completed his fellowship, and then obtained his first faculty appointment in 1972 at the University of Toronto.He performed the world's first successful lung transplant on pulmonary fibrosis patient Tom Hall on November 7, 1983 at Toronto General Hospital.
Addison Rerecich (October 1, 1999 – December 30, 2019) [1] was an American double-lung transplant recipient who spent the longest documented duration of time using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy at 93 days. [2] [3] She underwent the transplant at age 11 in 2011 and was the subject of a 2013 episode of Frontline on PBS.