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He Survived a Pioneering Double-Lung Transplant - Died After Routine Surgery
He Survived a Pioneering Double-Lung Transplant - Died After Routine Surgery
A man who lived nearly thirteen years on the world’s longest-surviving standalone double-lung transplant died after a routine brain procedure for facial pain; how did the lungs that defied every expectation fail to protect him from a different, ordinary complication? This episode centers on the startling contrast between a historic medical triumph and the commonplace surgery that ended it.
In this episode, we tell the life and medical arc of Floyd Davidson Spence, from his birth in 1928 through a pioneering bilateral…
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