New Jersey doesn't do lung transplants.
Of 956 lung transplants performed in 2000, just 15 came from living donors.
Over a six-year period since 2007, a total of 237 lung transplants were carried out at Harefield, and 90 per cent were double-lung transplants.
We do heart and lung transplants and would be next door to Addenbrooke's, which does liver and kidney transplants.
"Life expectancy is expanding, but some people still need lung transplants by the time they are teenagers".
Since the transplant programme began, the team have conducted over 500 heart and/or lung transplants.
But second lung transplants are rare, and there is a shortage of donors.
The medical community is examining the rules for lung transplants in children.
It is consequently not surprising that infection has caused failure of many lung transplants.
It was the mid-80s and heart and lung transplants were becoming common.
"When we first began doing lung transplants we didn't take smokers, and when we began doing hearts we didn't take people who smoked or drank.
