{"id":2624,"date":"2011-07-22T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.sites.unc.edu\/surgery\/ct\/lungtransplant-npr\/"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:17:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T17:17:34","slug":"lungtransplant-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/ct\/lungtransplant-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC lung transplant patient featured on NPR broadcast"},"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\/lungtransplant-NPR-image2.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" alt=\"image2\"><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Howell Graham<br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In a conversation broadcast on National Public Radio&#8217;s &#8220;Story Corps&#8221; series, Howell Graham remembers getting a double lung transplant at UNC in 1990. He was the first cystic fibrosis patient to undergo a double lung transplant at UNC Hospitals. At that time, lung transplantation was still a very new procedure, but the surgery, performed by <a href=\"\/surgery\/ct\/faculty-staff\/egan\" class=\"internal-link\">Thomas M. Egan, MD<\/a>, of the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, was a success: Graham is now believed to be the longest-surviving double-lung transplant patient in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Read about and listen to the NPR broadcast <a class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/07\/22\/138579948\/surviving-a-double-lung-transplant-life-is-good\">here<\/a>.  Read more about Graham <a class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.starnewsonline.com\/article\/20101007\/ARTICLES\/101009718\/-1\/news38?p=all&amp;tc=pgall&amp;tc=ar\">here<\/a> (Wilmington Star-News story) and <a class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\/\/endeavors.unc.edu\/spr2010\/happy_lungiversary.php\">here<\/a> (article about Dr. Egan&#8217;s research in Endeavors, UNC&#8217;s research magazine).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howell Graham In a conversation broadcast on National Public Radio&#8217;s &#8220;Story Corps&#8221; series, Howell Graham remembers getting a double lung transplant at UNC in 1990. He was the first cystic fibrosis patient to undergo a double lung transplant at UNC Hospitals. 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