new lungs in a six-hour operation. they came from an adult, and i want to explain why that can be a challenge. you know, when you re the size of sarah, you just can t get lungs from a 6-foot-tall grown-up, for example. there simply isn t enough room. let me show you what i m talking about specifically here. what she had was a low bar lung transplant. so instead of taking the whole lung, they took the lobes, bottom lobes here and over here, and that actually is more reasonable in terms of trying to size that for someone who is much smaller. as with any transplant, you still run the risk of infection, the chance of rejection and all of the health problems that can occur when you re on immune-suppressing drugs. now, for the average lung recipient and this is always important stats to keep in mind there is a 50/50 chance that the patient survives five years later after that transplant. for a child like sarah, it s really hard to say. there s just very little experience with children he
tall adult, there simply isn t enough room. what she had specifically was a lobar lung transplant, so instead of taking the whole lung from the adult, they took lobes of the lung as you see here, bottom lobes here and over here and that is more reasonably in terms of actually trying to size that for someone who is much smaller. as with any type of transplant still, you still run the risk of infection, the chance of rejection, and all of the health problems that can occur when you are on immune suppressing drugs. for the average lung recipient and this is always important stats to keep in mind, there s a 50/50 chance that the patient survives five years later after that transplant. for a child like sara, it s really hard to say, there s just very little experience with children her age. but part of a transplant certainly is offering hope. we re certainly all rooting for this little girl to do well. the supreme court made a big call this week on myriad genetics, a company that patented