Lung Transplantation

The lung transplantation is very complicated life saving surgery. It is usually the last kind of therapeutic procedure by patients in end stage of lung disease (COPD, bronchiolotis obliterans). The lung can be replaced partialy or totaly or totaly with heart. The first lung transplantation was made by James Hardy in 1963, the patient died after 18 days. The patients in 2011 have chance to live longer than 20 years.