Cheryl Melker underwent the world's first fully robotic double lung transplant on October 22nd at New York University Langone Health Center in Manhattan. Meaker, a doctor, had been suffering from …
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Lung Transplantation
Miracle mum Deirdre Roche Doherty from Kilkenny is the only woman in the world to have undergone a heart, double lung and kidney transplant and given birth to a baby.
by James Wardby James Ward“Every day I look at my two children I think of their donors. Without them I wouldn't be here.” Those are the words of miracle mother Deirdre Roche-Doherty, who is …
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Ireland's first double lung and liver transplant patient said he plans to travel once he has fully recovered. Robert Sheehan, 29, from Asketon, Co Limerick, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis …
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Liver Transplantation
Limerick man becomes Ireland’s first recipient of liver and double lung transplant, says ‘future is wide open’
A County Limerick man has become the first person in Ireland to receive a liver and double lung transplant. Robert Sheehan, 29, who has cystic fibrosis, suffered a severe deterioration …