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What the success rate of a lung transplant surgery?
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About 85 to 90% firs: About 85 to 90% first year survival at busy elite centers.
Answered 7/6/2012
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Survival data: Very good at 1 year with average us survival of 90 percent. This falls to 50 percent at five years and 10 percent survival at 10 years. That said there are patients who have lived twenty plus years after a lung transplant.
Answered 8/29/2012
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