August 2026

PULMONARY

FIRST KNOWN QUADRUPLE-ORGAN TRANSPLANT INVOLVING RETRANSPLANTED LUNGS

Featuring: Ankit Bharat, MD, and Satish N. Nadig, MD, PhD
Episode Summary
Northwestern Medicine surgeons have performed the first known quadruple-organ transplant involving retransplanted lungs in the U.S. The patient faced chronic rejection of her first lung transplant and complications from cystic fibrosis. Leaders of the multidisciplinary transplant team Ankit Bharat, MD, and Satish N. Nadig, MD, PhD, discuss this groundbreaking surgery and their approach for taking on such a complex surgical case.
Ankit Bharat, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, Thoracic, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare; Executive Director, Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute; the Harold L. and Margaret N. Method Professor of Surgery Professor of Thoracic Surgery
Satish N. Nadig, MD, PhD, Chief of Organ Transplantation, Director of Northwestern Medicine Comprehensive Transplant Center, Edward G. Elcock Professor of Surgical Research

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