Northwell Launches Lung Transplant Program
Northwell Health today announced that it has begun listing patients who need a lung transplant through the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the final steps toward opening the first lung transplant program serving Long Island and Queens residents.
- Northwell Health today announced that it has begun listing patients who need a lung transplant through the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the final steps toward opening the first lung transplant program serving Long Island and Queens residents.
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As the number of New Yorkers requiring a lung transplant have tripled over the last decade, the Northwell Health Transplant Center at North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) launched its program to fill an urgent need. - With the addition of lung, NSUH now offers world-class solid organ transplantation services for adult heart, kidney liver and lung.
- Half of all lung transplant recipients at New York City hospitals traveled from Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn or Staten Island, said Zachary Kon, MD , surgical director of advanced lung failure and lung transplantation services at Northwell.