Tomorrow’s newspaper will feature an update about Lenora Steadman, who became the first person in the world to receive a simultaneous heart-kidney-pancreas transplant 20 years ago in Dallas.
Since Steadman’s procedure, only eight other such operations have been performed in the U.S. But all organ transplants continue to increase in the U.S. and in Texas.
Click here or on the picture below to see a visualization of the organ transplant increase since 1998 in Texas. The data is from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
And look for the story about Steadman in Saturday’s edition of The Dallas Morning News.
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