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Heart lung transplant

Heart-lung transplant is a treatment for people with very serious lung and heart problems. It is done on both adults and children. This includes various diseases of the lung tissue itself, including cystic fibrosis.

The first successful heart and lung transplant was done at Stanford University in 1981. Since then, many advances have been made. Early failures were due to infection, breakdown at the junction in the windpipe (trachea), poor function of the transplanted organs and rejection of foreign tissue. These are now much less of a problem.

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