The trial will enroll patients with injury to the thoracic region, high in the spinal cord between the third and 10th vertebrae.
Sugarbaker, chief of thoracic surgery at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, draws a 10-cm-long sliver of lung through a finger-size hole in the patient's side and sends it for .
The 10-inch measurement shall be made from the center of the protruding edge of the 13th thoracic vertebra and not from the hollow of the chine bone where the 13th rib joins the .
Dr. Spray's son performed double lung transplant Dr. Paul Spray announced at the Rotary Club of Oak Ridge meeting Thursday that his son, Dr. Thomas Spray, surgical director of thoracic organ transplant at Philadelphia Children's Hospital, performed the double lung transplant on Sarah Murnaghan, the 10-year-old Philadelphia girl with cystic fibrosis whose family has been fighting to get her a new set of lungs to save her life.
June 20, 2013 - The Oak Ridger
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