Ocean Township Resident: "Living Again" After Double Lung Transplant
Ken Pape was losing an eight-year battle for his life. Lung disease had
left the 66-year-old increasingly weak, short of breath, and unable to
do vitually anything.Read Ken's story.
Following a heart and lung transplant at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Ethiel Fontalvo said, “I can walk — I do three miles now — and I can climb up the stairs. Before, I was out of breath after 12 steps.”
“I learned in 2016 that I would eventually need a lung transplant,” says Dawn Burke, 60, of Keyport. She had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a disease that scars the lungs.
“Some patients recover sooner than others, it truly depends on the individual,”