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The Advanced Lung Disease & Transplant Center at Tampa General is one of the most active lung transplant centers in the Southeast. We specialize in performing transplants for adult patients who have been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and pulmonary fibrosis, two leading causes of lung failure.

Specific lung transplant criteria are used to determine admission into Tampa General Hospital’s Lung Transplant Program. Each potential candidate must be referred to the program by a physician, who is required to complete a lung transplant referral form.

A national leader in transplant surgery for 50 years, Tampa General Hospital performed its first living donor kidney transplant in 1974. Since then, we have performed more than 13,000 transplant surgeries, including more than 7,500 kidney transplants.