Diane Hébert

Diane Hébert was the first Quebecer to receive a heart-lung transplant (on November 26, 1985), needed after doctors discovered a pulmonary embolism. After her operation, she became an organ transplant advocate and founded a foundation to assist organ transplant recipients.

At first, she was due to go "to California, because at that time the Canadian hospitals were not able to perform such a complicated operation": her story made the headlines and people gave money generously to help her afford the trip. However, after waiting for two years for a suitable donor, it comes up out that the surgery can now be done at the Toronto General Hospital, and a donor is found soon thereafter.

There were many complications after the operations: a month-long coma, parsed with three heart attacks, and she needed four more operations. Upon waking up, she had almost no sight and no hearing, no speech, and no leg movement.

Hébert died on June 29, 2008 from lung infection complications.

Bibliography

• Un Second Souffle (1986) Montreal: Éditions de l'Homme, 332p., ISBN 2-7619-0629-2

References

• Décès de la première greffée coeur-poumon
• de Diane Hébert
• Bibliography, Fondation Diane-Hébert
• Le phénomène Diane Hébert

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