Loyola Medicine performs 1,000th lung transplant: 3 things to know

Surgeons at Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola Medicine performed their 1,000th transplant April 27, making the hospital one of 11 in the country to achieve this milestone.

Three things to know:

1. The hospital's 1,000th lung transplant patient was a 69-year-old Iowa man with chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis. He underwent a successful transplant and was discharged May 8.

2. Loyola Medicine opened the state's first lung transplant program in 1988 and performed the first double-lung transplant in 1990.

3. Since launching the program, the hospital has performed nearly two times more lung transplants than all other transplant centers in the state combined.

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