{"id":2559,"date":"2010-10-28T18:55:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T22:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.sites.unc.edu\/surgery\/ct\/early-lung-transplant-patient-celebrates-20-years-of-breathing-free\/"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:17:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T17:17:18","slug":"early-lung-transplant-patient-celebrates-20-years-of-breathing-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/ct\/early-lung-transplant-patient-celebrates-20-years-of-breathing-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Early UNC transplant patient celebrates 20 years with good lungs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='image-section'>\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/ct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/690\/2018\/05\/early-lung-transplant-patient-celebrates-20-years-of-breathing-free-image2.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" alt=\"image2\"><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Howell Graham<br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"parent-fieldname-description\">Twenty years ago, Howell Graham became the first cystic fibrosis patient to undergo a double-lung transplant surgery at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. Lung transplantation was then a very new procedure, but the operation, done by UNC cardiothoracic surgeon Thomas M. Egan, MD, was a success. Now, Graham is<\/span> believed to be the longest-surviving double-lung transplant patient in the world. In an article about Graham that appeared in the Star-News of Wilmington, UNC thoracic surgeon Benjamin Haithcock comments on how lung transplantation has changed in 20 years. Graham hopes to raise awareness for organ donation and new lung transplant techniques developed by Egan.\u00a0 Read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starnewsonline.com\/article\/20101007\/ARTICLES\/101009718\/-1\/news38?p=all&#038;tc=pgall&#038;tc=ar\" target=\"_Graham\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howell Graham Twenty years ago, Howell Graham became the first cystic fibrosis patient to undergo a double-lung transplant surgery at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. Lung transplantation was then a very new procedure, but the operation, done by UNC cardiothoracic surgeon Thomas M. Egan, MD, was a success. Now, Graham is believed to be the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/ct\/early-lung-transplant-patient-celebrates-20-years-of-breathing-free\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Early UNC transplant patient celebrates 20 years with good lungs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7694,"featured_media":2560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Early UNC transplant patient celebrates 20 years with good lungs - Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/ct\/early-lung-transplant-patient-celebrates-20-years-of-breathing-free\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Early UNC transplant patient celebrates 20 years with good lungs - Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Howell Graham Twenty years ago, Howell Graham became the first cystic fibrosis patient to undergo a double-lung transplant surgery at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. 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