Heart–lung transplant
Procedure carried out to replace both heart and lungs in a single operation / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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See also: Lung transplantation § Heart–lung
A heart–lung transplant is a procedure carried out to replace both failing heart and lungs in a single operation. Due to a shortage of suitable donors and due to the fact that both heart and lung have to be transplanted together, it is a rare procedure; only about a hundred such transplants are performed each year in the United States.[United States-centric]
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