Sarah Murnaghan Gets Lung Transplant

Adult donor lungs were found for Sarah Murnaghan, the 10-year-old who has end-stage Cystic Fibrosis and fought to be placed on the adult transplant list.

Sarah received her transplant Wednesday at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

The transplant was "very, very successful," Sarah's aunt Sharin Ruddock told the media in a press conference Wednesday evening.

Sarah has been on both the adult and pediatric lung transplant list for months however because of her age and organ transplant policy, she would only receive adult donor lungs after all adult candidates, regardless of how sick they are, had the opportunity to accept them.

Last week, a federal judge ruled that Sarah could be temporarily added to the adult list, regardless of her age, for a lung transplant after her parents filed suit.

See updates on Sarah's surgery here on Marple Newtown Patch.