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Washington University in St. Louis

Lung Transplant Surgery

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Varun Puri, MD, (center) and a surgical team perform a recent lung transplant at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Associate surgical director of the lung transplant program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Puri is part of a research team that detailed unintended consequences of a new national policy on allocating donor lungs for transplant patients.

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