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ceive the reconditioned lungs, which would not have been suitable for transplant without undergoing perfusion by the Toronto System. "When I was given this chance, the hair on my arms stood up, I was so excited. I knew it was right. I just had to go for it," he said, with his wife Chris standing by his side and nodding for emphasis.
Andy is part of an ongoing clinical trial which uses the novel Toronto strategy to identify donor lungs which do not meet current transplant criteria, repair them, and then transplant them into patients. To date, four patients in total have received lungs treated using this technique, and all have done well. But Andy was the first patient who received lungs which did not meet standard transplant criteria and which could not have been used if they had not been repaired first by the Toronto System. (The three others received donor lungs which met transplant criteria and which were further improved by the Toronto System.) All TGH patients waiting for a lung transplant are eligible to be part of this clinical trial, and the lung transplant team will assess all those who are interested.
"We are extremely pleased that Andy is doing so well," said Dr. Keshavjee who is Director of the Lung Transplant Program at TGH, Senior Scientist, The McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Director, Latner Thoracic Research Laboratories, and Professor and Chair, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Toronto, adding that Andy was able to breathe without any mechanical assistance just four days after the transplant and was discharged from hospital 12 days after the procedure. "This achievement was the result of years of research and pre-clinical planning by a large team of researchers, surgeons, physicians, nurses and other specialists. It means that many more donor lungs which we could not have used before can now potentially be used safely, and it sets the stage for more sophisticated molecular and cellular repair techniques to be
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