The procedure had never been done before: a simultaneous transplant for both lungs and a liver. Six months later, a Santa Monica doctor is celebrating his new life - and a new marriage.
It's a medical story that's off the charts. Surgeons have successfully performed a combined lung-liver transplant on a patient who had advanced lung cancer.As a pulmonologist, Dr. Gary Gibbon listens to other people's lungs, not usually his own. But today is an exception.A far different sound than a year ago when this Santa Monica physician was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer.
Then, his wife remembered hearing on the news about the Double Lung Replacement program at Northwestern Medicine known as the"We got him on a plane, a medical flight here, a four hour flight from California to Chicago," said Dr. Satish Nadig, director of the Northwestern Medicine Transplant Center. "The sicker you are, the higher you are on the list in general. And so Dr. Gibbon was as sick as they come," he said."On a scale of 1 to 10 this was off the charts, never been done before," Nadig said.
"So the question was, how do we keep the liver alive while we completed the double lung transplant part of the procedure?" said Dr. Ankit Bharat with Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute.
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