Heart-lung transplant

A heart-lung transplant is a procedure carried out to replace both heart and lungs in a single operation. Due to a shortage of suitable donors it is rarely done, and only about 100 such transplants are performed each year in the USA.

History

Dr. Norman Shumway laid the groundwork for heart lung transplantation with his experiments into heart transplantation at Stanford in the mid-1960s. Shumway conducted the first adult heart transplant in the US in 1968.

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Norman Shumway - Stanford

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Building on his research at Stanford, Dr. Bruce Reitz performed the first successful heart-lung transplant on Mary Gohlke in 1981 at Stanford Hospital. The transplant team at Stanford is the longest continuously active team performing these transplants.

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Bruce Reitz - Mary Gohlke

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