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  • 30 Oct 08
    western4uk
    Kieran Lamb

    A patient has become the first in Britain to have a life-saving transplant using a technique that doctors hope will increase by 25 per cent the number of lungs available for transplant.

    Kenneth Collins, 55, who was diagnosed with emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease earlier this year, had been on a transplant list since June. A third of patients die while waiting for suitable lungs to become available from donors.

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