Heart–lung transplant

Heart–lung transplant
ICD-9-CM33.6
MeSHD016041

A heart–lung transplant is a procedure carried out to replace both failing heart and lungs in a single operation. Due to a shortage of suitable donors and because both heart and lung have to be transplanted together, it is a rare procedure; only about a hundred such transplants are performed each year in the United States.

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