Double Lung Replacement News Today

Northwestern Medicine performed a groundbreaking double lung transplant using a new technique on a patient with lung cancer and COVID-19 damage.

Six months after an unprecedented triple transplant, a Santa Monica doctor is celebrating his 69th birthday - and a new marriage.

After 12 days on the transplant wait list, Gibbon received his new lungs and liver from the same donor during a 10-hour surgical procedure.

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine say they have performed the first combined lung-liver transplant in the nation. Doctors at Northwestern Medicine say they have performed the first combined lung-liver transplant in the nation.

His surgeons spent 10 hours transplanting his new lungs and liver in September. Six months after the operation, Dr. Gary Gibbon remains cancer-free, able to breathe on his own and celebrated his 69th birthday on Wednesday.

Bean had lung replacement surgery in September. Bean was a giant of a man on the PGA Tour at 6-foot-4, and he once earned the reputation for wrestling an alligator at Q-school, a story he explained a few years later was little more than swatting it on the tail while playing alongside a player who had never seen a gator.

A novel treatment for certain late-stage lung cancers has been successful in the first two patients who underwent the operation.

For the second time at Northwestern Medicine, surgeons have successfully performed a double-lung transplant on a patient with stage 4 lung cancer who was being considered for hospice.

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With a second successful operation under its belt, the health system is making the procedure an official offering and studying the outcomes.