Sentences with phrase «second lung transplant»

Performing a second lung transplant is an especially difficult operation, due to the buildup of scar tissue from the first transplant and other factors.

The patients, all doing well, are a teacher, a judge, an executive director, a grandmother and an extraordinary young woman who beat very long odds to undergo a second lung transplant in three years.

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After spending all day May 8 performing one lung transplant, Schwartz stayed up all night performing a second.