LUNG TRANSPLANT PATIENT RECOVERING FASTER THAN EXPECTED

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, February 2, 1993                   TAG: 9302020077
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LOS ANGELES                                 LENGTH: Short
LUNG TRANSPLANT PATIENT RECOVERING FASTER THAN EXPECTED
A woman whose parents gave her part of their lungs in a landmark transplant looked at her chest X-rays and asked "Is that me?" when she saw her new lungs, a spokeswoman said Monday.
"She was beaming from ear to ear," said Beverly Strong, spokeswoman for the University of Southern California Hospital, where Stacy Sewell underwent the transplant Friday.
Sewell, a 21-year-old cystic fibrosis patient, and her parents - James, 55, and Barbara, 49 - were in good condition Monday, and the parents were moved out of intensive care, Strong said.
Stacy walked back and forth from her isolation room to elevators about a quarter block away.
Transplant surgeon Dr. Vaughn Starnes said Stacy and her parents were doing well and the parents probably would be allowed to return to their home in the Mojave Desert town of Quartz Hill by week's end. They are not expected to suffer any health problem as a result of the surgery, doctors said.
Stacy probably will remain hospitalized three weeks, he said.
Based on previous success rates with lung transplants, Stacy now has a 70 percent to 80 percent chance of surviving a year and a 65 percent chance of surviving at least three years, Starnes said. - Associated Press

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB