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World's first successful single lung transplant (Dr. Joel Cooper)
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World's first successful double lung transplant
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World’s first multi organ transplant performed– a liver and lung transplanted into one recipient
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Canada's largest HIV/AIDS clinic, the Immunodeficiency Clinic http://www.hivclinic.ca/main/home.html
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Canada’s first Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) is successfully implanted into a 47 year-old male
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TGH performs Canada’s first transplant (kidney) from a donor
who found a recipient via the internet. -
A North American first: Dr. Shaf Keshavjee and the TGH lung transplant team used the Novalung, an external, artificial lung to keep a patient alive until a set of donor organs became available for a young mother of three.
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World’s first heart progenitor cells grown from embryonic cells at
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A world first: Dr. Shaf Keshavjee and the TGH lung transplant team used a new technique called XVIVO Lung Perfusion System where a bloodless solution was used to repair donated lungs to make that were successfully unsuitable for transplant and then successfully transplanted into a patient
