165200login-checkJapanese Doctors Perform World’s First Living Donor Lung Transplant on COVID-19 Patient |
“A COVID-19 patient in Japan has received the world’s first lung transplant from living donors.
Receiving transplant lung tissue from her son and husband, the patient underwent an 11-hour operation at Kyoto University Hospital to receive her transplant last Wednesday.
The woman who underwent the operation contracted COVID-19 late last year. According to Kyoto University Hospital, she spent months on a life support machine acting as an artificial lung, because hers had become no longer functional. It’s expected that she’ll recover from last week’s operation within months.”
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165200login-checkJapanese Doctors Perform World’s First Living Donor Lung Transplant on COVID-19 Patient |