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Thu Jun 11, 2020, 03:28 PM Jun 2020

Coronavirus survivor in US receives double lung transplant

From https://apnews.com/90f342e73117fc9fa7f2b0e443d40941

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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Coronavirus survivor in US receives double lung transplant (Original Post) sl8 Jun 2020 OP
Fused to the chest wall! WTF! Baitball Blogger Jun 2020 #1
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