A heart–lung transplant is a procedure carried out to replace both heart and lungs in a single operation. Due to a shortage of suitable donors, it is a rare procedure; only about a hundred such transplants are performed each year in the USA. ==Qualifying conditions== Most candidates for heart–lung transplants have life-threatening damage to bo...
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(from the article `transplant`) ...of the operation, rejection could not be controlled by conventional immunosuppression. With the availability of cyclosporine researchers were able ... Heart and heart-lung organs can be preserved for four to six hours, and the success rate with this procedure continues to improve. Extensive blood ... ...
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