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Breathing life into injured lungs: World-first technique will expand lung donor organ pool
Date:12/19/2008

them before successfully transplanting them.

Currently, about 80 patients are waiting for either a lung or heart-lung transplant in Ontario. About 20% of those on the wait list will die before they receive a lung transplant. In Canada, the number of people waiting for a lung transplant has doubled in the past 10 years, with 252 Canadians waiting to receive a lung transplant in 2006, compared to 119 in 1997. Two hundred and ninety-nine (299) Canadians died while waiting for a lung transplant between 1997 and 2006.


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Contact: Linda Domenichini
linda.domenichini@uhn.on.ca
41-634-048-006-309
University Health Network
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