MRCP UK EXAMINATIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Dr. James Hardy from Jackson Mississippi, USA was the first surgeon in the world to perform lung transplantation in man in 1963. The patient was a 58-year old man who had lung cancer involving the left main airway and obstructing distal airways resulting in lung collapse and recurrent pneumonia.

Detailed explanation-2: -On June 11, 1963, James Hardy performed the first human lung transplant (Figure 3) (5). The patient undergoing the transplant had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer and a lung abscess, and the odds of long-term success were not in Hardy’s favor. Figure 3 James Hardy, who performed the first human lung transplant.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hardy performed the world’s first heart transplant in man Jan. 23, 1964, at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Those first two operations in Mississippi-met with such dubious acceptance in the beginning-set the stage for all future heart and lung transplantation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ann Harrison, the patient who underwent the world’s first successful double-lung transplant at the Toronto General Hospital in 1986, died of a brain aneurysm at the same hospital Apr. 20. She was 56. In a eulogy, the surgeon who performed the procedure said he could not have asked for a better patient.