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Article: Hawaii Recovers Its First Set of Donor Lungs.(national data bank)(California Transplant Donor Network)
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- Transplant News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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For the first time in the state of Hawaii, an organ donor's lungs were recovered locally and transplanted in a patient in California.
It was an historic event in the state's organ donation program, Darryl Ing, Organ Donor Center of Hawaii executive director, said in an interview with the Honolulu Star Bulletin newspaper. Hawaii has no lung transplant program and has not been able to provide donor lungs for transplants on the mainland because surgeons felt the time from recovery of the lungs to transplant was too long, he said.
Then in June, the lungs of a 22-year-old Honolulu man became available. A transplant team from UCSF Medical Center happened to be ...