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Woman Receives Double Lung Transplant

WEKU | By Wendy Mitchell, The Ledger Independent
Published October 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM EDT

A Bracken County woman is recovering after undergoing a double lung transplant Tuesday. Sarah Peed McCane, 29-year-old wife of Steven McCane, was born with cystic fibrosis. By 2007, she had only about 47 percent of the lung capacity of a person her age. On Tuesday, McCane received a double lung transplant at Cleveland Hospital, a family member said.
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