Surgeons perform novel procedures prior to lung transplant
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 22:30
in Health & Medicine
Surgeons have performed two specific procedures together as a bridge to lung transplantation. Wanda Craig, of Lexington, Ky., is the first patient in history to receive these procedures, and at the age of 68, she is also the oldest living human to be bridged to transplant using an artificial lung device, also known as an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.