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Mother-to-son lung transplant a world first

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Okayama University Hospital said July 1 that part of a mother's lung had been successfully transplanted into her 3-year-old son in the world's first middle lobe transfer from a living donor.

The operation made the troubled boy, whose lung function was declining, the youngest lung recipient in Japan, the hospital said.

Lung transplants from living donors usually involve the larger inferior lobe. (Kyodo)

世界初の生体肺移植に成功、母から息子に

岡山で重い肺の病気に苦しむ男児に母親の肺の中葉部分を移す生体肺移植が行なわれた。

The Japan Times ST: July 12, 2013