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Covid-19 patient in Japan receives lung transplant from living donors
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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.
2021-04-08 14:05:52 GMT2021-04-08 22:05:52(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
TOKYO, April 8 (Xinhua) Japan s Kyoto University Hospital said Thursday that it has conducted the world s first living donor lung transplant on a COVID-19 patient who lost functionality of both her lungs.
The patient, a woman lives in western Japan, is currently in intensive care. Her husband and son, who donated part of their healthy lungs, are in stable conditions after the surgery, said the hospital.
The operation took around 11 hours and the patient is expected to be discharged in two months if everything goes well, according to the hospital.
The woman had no pre-existing medical conditions but her respiratory function deteriorated rapidly after she was infected with the coronavirus late last year. She developed pneumonia, which caused both her lungs to harden and shrink and become almost nonfunctional.
COVID-19 patient receives lung transplant from living donors
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Tokyo, Apr 8 (efe-epa).- A medical team from Kyoto University Hospital in western Japan announced Thursday that it has successfully performed the first lung transplant from living donors to a patient with severe lung damage caused by Covid-19.
The patient is a woman who developed pneumonia after becoming infected with the coronavirus at the end of last year and who had received extracorporeal membrane oxygenation after her lungs were damaged by the virus, the hospital said in a statement.
A medical team comprising of about 30 specialists performed the transplant on Wednesday and the patient has responded well to the procedure.
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