The Latest Breaking News from Lung Transplant

Young tradie warns of silica-related illnesses after needing lung transplant

Hak Kim was in his mid-20s when he started noticing changes in his body while working on demolition sites in Sydney.

ABC News · Apr 6, 2023

More than 1,000 sign petition in support of North Belfast mum in need of lung transplant

Clare Mahon has been in intensive care for the past five weeks following a deterioration in her pulmonary fibrosis

Belfast Live · Mar 29, 2023

Woman cured of deadly cancer after groundbreaking double lung transplant

Tannaz Ameli had a double lung transplant and is now cancer free - a year after the first patient Albert Khoury, received the novel surgery after all other treatments failed

Daily Mirror · Mar 17, 2023

GAA star who had double lung transplant and now needs a kidney vows to run a marathon even if he has to crawl

Although currently being assessed for a kidney transplant, three time marathon runner David Crosby has pledged he will again walk or crawl another gruelling race in time and reach his ultimate goal of completing six of the contests.

Irish Mirror · Dec 7, 2022

UK’s first double lung transplant spent five months on life support due to Covid

The 50-year-old hotel engineer praises ‘selfless’ organ donor who saved his life

The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2022

Dad 'shackled to life support' with Covid gets UK's first double lung transplant

Cesar Franco, a 50-year-old maintenance engineer at a five-star hotel in central London, caught Covid-19 just before Christmas last year and went on to develop develop inflammation of the lungs

Daily Mirror · Dec 6, 2022

Man hails success of first UK double lung transplant for Covid complications - OLD

Cesar Franco contracted Covid-19 just before Christmas last year.

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2022

London surgeons carry out first successful double lung transplant for Covid patient in the UK

Cesar Franco, 50, is back spending time with his family after nearly dying from the virus in hospital

Evening Standard · Dec 6, 2022

‘A gift of life’: the NHS double lung transplant that saved Covid patient

After months in intensive care, Cesar Franco became the first person in Britain to have the operation because of the virus

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2022

The nation’s longest double-lung transplant patient dies at 60 in North Carolina

WILMINGTON, N.C. — In 1990, Howell Graham was so weakened by cystic fibrosis that he got winded brushing his teeth. He couldn’t work or socialize, reduced to a half-life with his arm attached to an antibiotics port.

Tribune News Service · Nov 30, 2022