NYU Langone Transplant Institute Celebrates Milestone Lung Transplant Procedure
NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Last month the NYU Langone Transplant Institute achieved a milestone lung transplant procedure: its first for a patient whose lungs were irretrievably damaged by COVID-19, and its 100th lung transplant since the program launched in January 2018.
- NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Last month the NYU Langone Transplant Institute achieved a milestone lung transplant procedure: its first for a patient whose lungs were irretrievably damaged by COVID-19, and its 100th lung transplant since the program launched in January 2018.
- Since 2017, NYU Langone has launched five new solid organ transplant programs: heart, lung, pancreas, pediatric kidney, and pediatric heart.
- Alongside the lung transplant program's notable achievements, NYU Langone's adult heart transplant program also ranks top in the nation according to recently published data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients.
- "I'm extremely proud to see the Lung Transplant program achieve such incredible success less than three years after its launch," says Robert Montgomery, MD , DPhil, Director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute and chair of the Department of Surgery.