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Sarah Murnaghan Added to Adult Transplant List
A court ruling will allow 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan and potentially other children to be temporarily added to the adult list for a lung transplant, according to Sen. Pat Toomey.
Sarah Murnaghan, the 10 year old who , has been temporarily added to the adult list for a lung transplant, according to reports.
Murnaghan's family filed an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction in federal court to prevent U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius from enforcing a policy that prevents children under 12 from getting the adult lung transplants they need to save their lives, according to a statement from U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey.
Sarah has been on both the adult and pediatric lung transplant list but under organ transplant policy, she would only receive adult donor lungs after all adult candidates, regardless of how sick they are, had the opportunity to accept them. If Sarah were 12 years old she would immediately be eligible for the next available lungs from an adult donor.
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