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If a person needs a double lung transplant, are both lungs replaced during 1 or 2 separate surgeries?

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Dr. William Walsh answered

Specializes in Addiction Medicine

Sequential single : The real name for a double lung transplant is sequential single lung; there is one surgery done where is lung is transplanted separately.

Answered 11/19/2012

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Dr. Amrita Dosanjh answered

Specializes in Pediatric Allergy and Asthma

One operation: During the surgery, they operate on one side at a time. The surgeons remove and replace both the right and left lung. It is therefore termed sequential bilateral lung transplantation.

Answered 9/7/2014

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