Finding a donor for heart-lung transplant can be difficult.

A heart-lung transplant is a procedure carried out to replace both heart and lungs in a single operation.

May 11 - The first heart-lung transplant takes place.

A heart-lung transplant is a type of surgery to help people who have very sick hearts and lungs.

Candidates for a heart-lung transplant are usually required to be:

The success rate of heart-lung transplants has improved a lot in recent years.

We'd talked about a heart-lung transplant, and he was on the list, but they never found a suitable match.

Only one successful heart-lung transplant had been performed on a patient like her in the United States.

"You don't hear people asking about the cost benefit of a heart-lung transplant," he said.

Within the transplant community, there is intense debate about even performing heart-lung transplants.