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British surgeon Andrew Ready flushing a donated kidney during a transplant at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, England, 2006.
The first human lung transplant was performed by American surgeon James D. Hardy in 1963, though the patient survived for only 18 days.12
While Hardy pioneered the procedure, the first successful single-lung transplant—defined by long-term survival—was performed in 1983 by Joel D. Cooper, a thoracic surgeon at Toronto General Hospital; that patient survived for six years. Cooper also performed the first successful double-lung transplant in 1986.32