Duke Health Surgical Teams Perform Five Heart, Lung Transplants in 24 Hours
Photo: Mani Daneshmand, MD, performs a double lung transplant in November 2015
Duke Health’s heart and lung transplant programs have a long history of performing complicated transplants with outstanding success. That reputation was put to a challenging test on December 1, when Duke surgeons and their teams at Duke University Hospital successfully performed three heart transplants and two double lung transplants within a 24-hour period.