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The first successful transplant surgery involving the lungs was a heart-lung transplant, performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of Stanford University in 1981 on a woman who had idiopathic pulmonary hypertension. [11] [12] 1983: First successful long-term single lung transplant (Tom Hall) by Joel Cooper (Toronto) [13]
In September 2011, Rerecich underwent a successful double-lung transplant surgery. [1] She returned home in November 2011. [6] The total medical cost of her hospital stay reached $6 million. [12] Rerecich continued to engage in physical therapy and took dozens of medications daily to limit the chance of infection.
In 2009, the physicians at the University of Illinois Medical Center performed the first robotic renal transplantation in an obese recipient and have continued to transplant people with a body mass index over 35 using robotic surgery. As of January 2014, over 100 people who would otherwise have been turned down because of their weight have ...
In 2020, doctors diagnosed 17-year-old Josh Burton with pulmonary veno-occlusive disease. He's now had two lung transplants.
A double lung transplant was successful in late-stage cancer patients for the first time. Northwestern Medicine surgeons performed the operation.
Photo by NYU Langone Health. Cheryl Mehrkar with Stephanie H. Chang, MD, who performed the world’s first fully robotic double lung transplant surgery on Oct. 22, 2024.
Lung surgery is a type of thoracic surgery involving the repair or removal of lung tissue, [1] and can be used to treat a variety of conditions ranging from lung cancer to pulmonary hypertension. Common operations include anatomic and nonanatomic resections, pleurodesis and lung transplants .
The first successful heart–lung transplant was performed at Stanford in the United States, by Bruce Reitz on Mary Gohlke in 1981. [5] Magdi Yacoub performed the first heart-lung transplant in the United Kingdom in 1983. [6] Australia's first heart-lung transplant was conducted by Victor Chang at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney in 1986. [7]