Figure 2.

The first human lung transplantation was performed on June 11, 1963 at the University Hospital, Jackson, Mississippi by James D Hardy and his team. The donor died of massive heart attack resulting in heart failure and shock and was therefore the first non-heart-beating donor (NHBD), now named donor after circulatory death (DCD). A left SLTx was successfully performed. The recipient, the 58-year-old John Russell with an obstructive tumor in the left main bronchus died 18 days later from renal failure. (A) James D. Hardy (picture available at https://www.umc.edu/som/Departments%20and%20Offices/SOM%20Departments/Surgery/Residents/About-Us/James%20Hardy/James-Hardy.html, accessed August 8, 2017); (B) Original paper as published in Ann Surg presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Surgical Association, Hot Springs, Virgina, April 1–3, 1964 (18).