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A LIFE-saving transplant using lungs which were made to `breathe' outside the body has been carried out at a Manchester hospital.

Ken Collins, 55, is the first in Britain to benefit from the `ex vivo' - or outside the body - procedure, after a 14-hour op at Wythenshawe Hospital.

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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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