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Title: Pennsylvania girl gets second lung transplant after first failed
Post by: riky on June 30, 2013, 09:00:19 AM
Pennsylvania girl gets second lung transplant after first failed

By Francesca Trianni NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who sparked a national debate about child access to organ donation took her first independent breath this week on a second set of donor lungs after her first transplant failed, the girl's family said on Friday. Sarah Murnaghan, who had cystic fibrosis and needed a lung transplant, had been kept off an adult organ transplant list due to an age restriction. She became eligible for an adult pair of lungs only after a judge's order. ...

Source: Pennsylvania girl gets second lung transplant after first failed (http://news.yahoo.com/pennsylvania-girl-gets-second-lung-transplant-first-failed-213643879.html)