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Russian Physiologist experiments with transplanting heart and lungs on dogs. He reported the first dog lung transplantation in 1946 (Dabak & Şenbaklavacı, 2016). -
Dr. James Hardy performs first lung transplant.
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The first successful lung transplantation was performed in 1971. The patient survived 10.5 months after the procedure. This was the longest a patient has survived after a lung transplant (Panchabhai et al., 2018). -
"Drs. Norman Shumway and Bruce Reitz at Stanford University performed three heart-lung transplants two of which were successful."(Stanford, 2018). For more information click here -
In 1983 the Food and Drug Administration approved cyclosporine, which had proved to be beneficial in lung transplant patients. Cyclosporine was used for immunosuppression in lung transplants (Panchabhai et al., 2018). -
The first successful lung transplant in the world was performed by the Toronto Lung Transplant group. The patient survived over 4 years after the procedure (Dabak & Şenbaklavacı, 2016). -
In 1984 the National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA) was passed. Due to this act the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) was created and it established that the network would be operated by a private organization under federal contract (History and NOTA - OPTN, n.d.). -
In 1986 the first successful lung transplantation was performed at Toronto General Hospital (Dabak & Şenbaklavacı, 2016). -
In 1987, The first pediatric lung transplantation was performed at the University of Toronto, on a 16-year-old male (Panchabhai et al., 2018). -
Before the implementation of the lung allocation score system the prioritization of patients was first come first served, which did not take into account the severity of a patients illness. The lung allocation score system takes into account the severity of a patient's illness and the patients long-tern success (Panchabhai et al., 2018).