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F. Perry Wilson, MD: Hello. I am Dr F. Perry Wilson. I'm an associate professor of medicine and public health at the Yale School of Medicine. I am joined today by two amazing physicians, Dr Rade Tomic, who is a professor of medicine, pulmonology, and critical care and medical director of the Lung Transplant Program at Northwestern Medicine. I am also joined by Dr Ankit Bharat, the chief of thoracic surgery at the Canning Thoracic Institute and a professor of surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern. Gentlemen, thank you for joining me to discuss what is really an amazing case that came out in the news: a lung transplant, the likes of which I don't think has ever been conducted in the United States. I want to jump in and ask Dr Tomic to start us off and tell me a bit about this patient, Davey Bauer. Who was Davey Bauer?
Rade Tomic, MD: David Bauer, the patient, had a history of vaping and multiple infections, first viral infections and then Pseudomonaspneumonia. He had a really severe infection in both lungs. He was ventilated but the ventilator was not sufficient to keep him alive.
