Meet Colette Hurd, Northwestern’s 1st transplant recipient of organs that weren’t a match. An immunosuppression strategy is key to her success.

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It was 422 days at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

That’s the length of Ashburn-area resident Colette Hurd’s stay due to her idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, a condition that affects blood vessels in the lungs and the right side of the heart and causes the heart and lungs to weaken over time.
Read the full story in the Chicago Tribune.

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