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Landmark multiorgan surgery at UF Health Shands reverses patient’s terminal prognosis

September 1, 2020

Allen Korson went from a kidney stone ailment to needing a multiorgan transplant, both lungs and a liver, one of the rarest procedures performed in the United States due to its complexity. UF Health’s lung transplant team, shown performing a procedure in a 2019 photo, has one of the…

Dr. Thiago Beduschi, MD, and Dr. Tiago Machuca, MD, pose for a portrait outside the Heart, Vascular, and Neuromedicine Hospital where the two completed the first-ever double lung and liver transplant at UF Health.

UF Health surgeons perform historic double-lung transplant on COVID-19 survivor

July 30, 2020

A patient’s lungs were damaged beyond repair after he battled COVID-19. UF Health’s lung transplant team stepped up to help — and gave him another chance by performing the first post-virus transplant in the South.