Okayama hospital combines healthy parts of donor’s lungs to make one for transplant www.japantimes.co.jp

posted by  Yubi | 7 years, 4 months ago in Science & Technology

In a world first, Okayama University Hospital has succeeded in combining parts of a brain-dead donor’s lungs to make one lung and transplanted it into a woman in her 50s.

The lower parts of both of the female donor’s lungs were damaged, making transplantation of an entire lung impossible, according to Dr. Takahiro Oto, the professor at the university who performed the surgery on Saturday.