HealthDay Reports: Woman With Severe COVID-19 Gets Life-Saving Double-Lung Transplant
Image: Dr. Bharat performs operation Photo: Northwestern Memorial Hospital
The woman suffered irreversible lung damage from a COVID-19 infection and was able to receive a double-lung transplant 48 hours after she was listed for one.
Woman With Severe COVID-19 Gets Life-Saving Double-Lung Transplant
THURSDAY, June 11, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A young COVID-19 survivor received a double-lung transplant to save her life in what's believed to be the first such surgery in the United States, Northwestern Medicine doctors report.
Following her infection, the Hispanic woman in her 20s suffered irreversible lung damage and had to be put on a life-support machine that does the work of the heart and lungs.
"A lung transplant was her only chance for survival," said Dr. Ankit Bharat, surgical director of Northwestern Medicine's lung transplant program.