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Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have determined that the respiratory illness causes severe lung damage, with some patients even undergoing lung transplants as part of their recovery. A January study found that more than 1,700 patients from Wuhan, China, were found to have evidence of lung damage months after their infection.
Doctors in Japan have performed what they say is the world’s first lung transplant from living donors to a COVID-19 patient, Dr. Hiroshi Date, the director of the Department of Respiratory Surgery at Kyoto University Hospital, revealed at a Thursday news conference.
The Asahi Shimbun
KYOTO Doctors at Kyoto University Hospital here have performed the world s first lung transplant from live donors to a patient confirmed to have had COVID-19.
The disease led to serious pneumonia symptoms for the female patient even after three months of treatment, so the decision was made to transplant part of the lungs of the woman’s husband and son to her.
According to hospital officials, the woman lives in the Kansai region and came down with COVID-19 toward the end of last year. Her breathing problems worsened, and she was hospitalized in another hospital in the Kansai region.