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The Lungs That Lasted Thirteen Years: Floyd Spence's Impossible Transplant
The Lungs That Lasted Thirteen Years: Floyd Spence's Impossible Transplant
Fear and awe collide in this true medical milestone: a 60-year-old congressman received one of the earliest standalone double-lung transplants in 1988 and those lungs kept working for thirteen years-so what finally killed him? Could an organ outlive expectations while the rest of the body failed?
In this episode, we tell the life and medical story of Floyd Spence Spence and the 1988 double-lung transplant at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, tracing his military and political career, the pioneering surgery…
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