Items Tagged ‘Dennis Pinkerton’

November 28, 2022

Beating the odds for a transplant

By Susan Buckles

When the phone rang in the middle of a Sunday night news program, and the caller ID flashed Mayo Clinic, Dennis Pinkerton and his wife, Rhonda, knew it was a pivotal moment. The doctor on the line delivered news he thought he’d never hear. A pair of donor lungs — kept alive and breathing on […]

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Tags: Center for Regenrative Biotherapeutics, COPD, Dennis Pinkerton, double lung transplant, emphysema, ex vivo lung perfusion, Ian Makey, Jorge Mallea