SNUH succeeds in transplanting adult lung into a child
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Date : 2018-06-22
Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) said that it has successfully transplanted a partial lung from an adult donor into a pediatric patient for the first time in Korea.
The doctors had diagnosed the seven-year-old patient with primary pulmonary arterial hypertension earlier this year. After six months of waiting, the patient managed to find a suitable lung from a brain-dead adult donor. The surgery, led by Professors Kim Young-tae and Seo Dong-in, successfully transplanted parts of the donor’s left and right lung into the patient.
According to the hospital, the patient is currently preparing for discharge and shows no particular problems.
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