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Sub Category - First Surgical Operations |
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First Lung Transplant |
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Science and Technology - First Surgical Operations |
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The first lung transplant was carried out on Thanvanthri Nadesan Veerappan on 19 Nov 2000 at the National Heart Centre in SGH. The 54-year-old recipient had been suffering from pulmonary fibrosis and given only weeks to live without a transplant, before the 9-hr operation performed by Dr S Sivathasan, Dr Tong Ming Chuan and Dr T Agasthian. The donor was Madam Yap Chee Kian, who had died from brain haemorrhage at the National Neuroscience Institute. |
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