Thursday 30 October 2008

BBC NEWS | Wales | Patient given pioneering lung op

BBC NEWS | Wales | Patient given pioneering lung op

A 55-year-old man has received a life-saving transplant using lungs from a donor which were made to breathe outside the body, it has been revealed.

Kenneth Collins from Chirk, Wrexham, had the procedure during a 14-hour operation at the University Hospital of South Manchester seven weeks ago.

The lungs were kept healthy for a longer period than they would normally survive outside the body.

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