An 18-year follow-up after the first successful heart-lung transplant in Poland. Authors' tribute to the pioneers of heart and lung transplantation

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiac, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and Transplantology, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
• ² Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• ³ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Saint Raphael Voivodship Specialist Hospital, Czerwona Góra, Poland
• ⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
• ⁵ 2nd Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Zabrze, Poland
• ⁶ 3rd Division of Cardiology, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
• ⁷ Department of Cardiac, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and Transplantology, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. zawadzkifryderyk@gmail.com