Child who got transplant after legal fight is recovering

By Ellen Wulfhorst (Reuters) – A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl with cystic fibrosis who became eligible for an adult organ transplant after a legal battle waged by her family was recovering on Thursday from double-lung transplant surgery, a family spokeswoman said. The most immediate risks facing Sarah Murnaghan, a day after she received lungs from an adult donor at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, were the possibility of bleeding and the chance the lungs were damaged and do not function properly, experts said. …