OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man has been the first to receive a lung transplant at the Nebraska Medical Center in nearly 20 years.
The Omaha World-Herald (http://bit.ly/1omOSOu ) reports that 58-year-old Phil Sauvageau, who was seriously ill with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, received the lungs through a six-hour surgery last month.
The Nebraska Medical Center is one of a few U.S. institutions to offer all solid-organ transplants under one roof. It started performed lung transplants in 1995, but stopped in 1998 after the departure of one surgeon and the death of another.
The hospital announced in November that it would revive the program after Dr. Michael Moulton began the movement to do so about four years ago.
Dr. Aleem Siddique, who performed Sauvageau's surgery and has been at the hospital more than two years, is surgical director of lung transplantation.
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