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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.
By Bill Galluccio
Apr 9, 2021
A Japanese woman who suffered severe lung damage following a battle with COVID-19 has successfully undergone lung transport surgery. The woman is the first person in the world to receive new lungs from living donors.
The woman, who was not identified, contracted COVID-19 last year and had to be put on life support. She spent months hooked up to a machine that functioned as an artificial lung. After she recovered from the coronavirus, doctors determined that her lungs were too damaged and that she needed to undergo transplant surgery.
There is a shortage of lung donors, and the waiting list can be years long. When her family realized she was unlikely to find a suitable donor in time, they decided to donate their lungs. Her husband volunteered to donate part of his left lung, while her son donated part of his right lung.
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17:44 • 09.04.21
Doctors in Japan have performed the world s first-ever living donor lung transplant on a patient with severe lung damage from Covid-19.
A Japanese woman s life was saved by the nearly 11-hour operation carried out by a medical team of 30 after her husband and son donated parts of their lungs, doctors said on Thursday, according to the Daily Mail.
The recipient, identified only as a woman from Japan s western region of Kansai, is recovering, Kyoto University Hospital said, along with her donor family members.
Doctors transplanted tissue from her husband and son s healthy lungs to replace parts of the patient s failing lungs. In the case of a live-donor transplantation, two donors are required.