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Chennai doctors successfully perform lung transplant on patient battling for life after herbicide consumption.

Pioneering British surgeon who carried out the world’s first liver, heart and lung transplant

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Doctors at Northwestern Medicine used breast implants and an artificial lung to keep a patient stabilized until his double-lung transplant.

Rare double lung transplant saves 23-year-old patient

Veteran journalist K.S. Sachidananda Murthy, 68, who hailed from Karnataka and had a long stint with the Malayala Manorama Group, passed away in Bengaluru on Friday. He was recovering from a recent lung transplant surgery in the city. He is survived by his wife and two sons.

Dan Spees, 64, picked up his horn for the first time in months and played “Joy to the World” in his Northwestern Memorial Hospital room days after his operation.

Situs inversus is found in just one in 10,000 people, and it’s even rarer for those with it to need lung transplants. Northwestern Medicine doctors performed the surgery twice in a month.

Clare Mahon had been in intensive care for two months following following a deterioration in her pulmonary fibrosis

Marty has suffered from pulmonary fibrosis and a number of other lung-related illnesses since 2016

Danielle Wards has been in and out of hospital since she was three-years-old after a pulmonary hypertension diagnosis. She now needs a transplant as current treatment isn't 'making a difference'