Meir Tzan’ani blew the shofar in his synagogue until he was 17 years old when his lungs were burnt in a schoolboy prank. Following a transplant and rehabilitation at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson campus in Petah Tikva, Meir (now age 57) can blow the shofar once more.
http://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Science/Man-who-had-lung-transplant-to-blow-shofar-for-first-time-in-40-years-325862