Doctors at Rome's Sant'Andrea hospital have performed a pulmonary artery transplant on a patient in their 70s with lung cancer in world first.
    A neoplasm had infiltrated the pulmonary artery after the patient had the entire left lung removed.
    The hospital said the surgery, the idea of two young thoracic surgeons, Cecilia Menna and Beatrice Trabalza Marinucci, took place on July 17.
    It was performed by a team led by Erino A.

Rendina, the director of thoracic surgery at Sant'Andrea and dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology at Rome's La Sapienza University.
    The donor artery came from Barcelona, where it had been cryopreserved.

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