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Patient Stories: Lung Transplant

Barbara Pease – Lung Transplant Recipient
Lung transplant doctors say patients need a strong support system to have a successful transplant. Barbara Pease is living proof.
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Jane Gross – Lung Transplant Recipient
Gross of Marion, IL, says she would have the procedure again “in a heartbeat.”
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Carrie and Gary Gobble, Lung Transplant
Carrie was looking for life, not love, when she turned to the Barnes-Jewish Hospital lung transplant program. But she found both.
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Rory McCue, transplant patient

In 2003, Rory McCue was healthy, athletic and about to graduate college. All of that changed in a single evening during a fire in his fraternity house. On July 14, 2011, Rory received two new lungs.

  • In 2003, Rory McCue was healthy, athletic and about to graduate college. All of that changed in a single evening during a fire in his fraternity house. On July 14, 2011, Rory received two new lungs.
  • Washington University lung transplant surgeons reached a milestone and quickly passed it Jan. 21 when they performed the 1,000th adult lung transplant at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the 1,001st transplant just a few hours later
  • Overview of lung transplant services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital
  • Profile of lung transplant patients Gary and Carrie Gobble.