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New heights for lung transplant

Andrei Leșan
New heights for lung transplant
Taking into account that lung transplant is a complicated and complex procedure, both from a medical and a financial point of view, for the Romanian patients, for more than 10 years, this procedure has been performed at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus (AKH) Hospital in Vienna. During this period, 49 Romanian patients with terminal lung diseases have been subject to transplants; these patients had no other chance to live than this medical procedure.