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Article: Parents both donate half their lungs to daughter with cystic fibrosis. (Originated from Orlando Sentinel)
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- August 8, 1993
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An Orlando, Fla., woman is taking her first deep breaths in 10 years, following a pioneering and controversial ``parent-to-child'' lung transplant.
The lobes removed by surgeons from Kristie Willis' parents now function as a full pair of lungs for the 20-year-old college student with cystic fibrosis. Until the operation, she had been given only months to live.
The three Willises are now recuperating from the operations they underwent simultaneously last week at the University of Southern California-University Hospital in Los Angeles.
Kristie is only the fourth person in the world, and the first Floridian, to receive ``a living donor transplant'' as a treatment for ...