Double-lung transplants work better than single for long-term survival

Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 08:56 in Health & Medicine

Having both lungs replaced instead of just one is the single most important feature determining who lives longest after having a lung transplant, more than doubling an organ recipient's chances of extending their life by over a decade, a study by a team of transplant surgeons at Johns Hopkins shows...

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