Coronavirus survivor in US receives double lung transplant
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Coronavirus survivor in US receives double lung transplant
By LINDSEY TANNER
12 minutes ago
Surgeons in Chicago have given a new set of lungs to a young woman with severe lung damage from the coronavirus.
Northwestern Medicine on Thursday announced the procedure, which took place last Friday. Only a few other COVID-19 survivors, in China and Europe, have received lung transplants.
The Chicago patient is in her 20s and was on a ventilator and heart-lung machine for almost two months before her operation at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
The 10-hour procedure was challenging because the virus had left her lungs full of holes and almost fused to the chest wall, said Dr. Ankit Bharat, who performed the operation.
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