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image captionCovid-19 has caused longterm lung damage in many patients (file image from the Jacques Cartier hospital in France)
A woman in Japan has become the world s first Covid patient to receive a living donor lung transplant.
The patient received lung segments from her son and husband after her organs failed because of damage caused by the coronavirus.
Doctors in Kyoto hope she will make a complete recovery within months.
Waiting lists for full lung transplants - where the organ is provided by donors who have died - are very long in Japan and elsewhere.
肺移植の対象患者「かなり限られる」 手術は通常態勢で [新型コロナウイルス]:朝日新聞デジタル
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新型コロナで肺に重い後遺症 生体肺移植 世界初 京大病院 | 新型コロナウイルス
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