Can we have a living-donor lung transplant operation done at Texas Childrens?
In 1990 Dr. Vaughan Starnes developed the surgical technique for implanting the lower lobes of two healthy adult donors into the chest cavities of a smaller recipient in place of both diseased lungs. Dr. Starnes still performs this surgery at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Texas Children’s Pediatric Lung Transplant Program currently does not offer living-donor lung transplants. The frequency of this surgery has dropped to 1 per year in the past 5 years.
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