Items Tagged ‘#Dr. Ian Makey’
October 19, 2022
Beating the odds for a transplant
When the phone rang in the middle of a Sunday night news program, and the caller ID flashed Mayo Clinic, Dennis Pinkerton and his wife, Rhonda, knew it was a pivotal moment. The doctor on the line delivered news he thought he’d never hear. A pair of donor lungs — kept alive and breathing on […]
Tags: #double lung transplant, #Dr. Ian Makey, #Dr. Jorge Mallea, #lung perfusion, #Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Biotherapeutics, Dennis Pinkerton, ex vivo lung perfusion system