Three things to know:
1. The hospital’s 1,000th lung transplant patient was a 69-year-old Iowa man with chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis. He underwent a successful transplant and was discharged May 8.
2. Loyola Medicine opened the state’s first lung transplant program in 1988 and performed the first double-lung transplant in 1990.
3. Since launching the program, the hospital has performed nearly two times more lung transplants than all other transplant centers in the state combined.
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