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The 34-year-old patient was diagnosed with a COVID-19 infection on October 29
Even after the optimal treatment, his condition continued to worsen and he was initially put on a ventilator and later on ECMO support
The investigations showed that the patient s lung had suffered severe damage due to covid and had become fibrosed
Hyderabad: Doctors at Institute of Heart and Lung transplant in the Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Hyderabad, successfully performed a double lung transplant on a post-covid lung fibrosis patient after bridging him to transplant with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for 53 days.
The procedure was performed by a team of doctors led by the country s renowned heart and lung transplant surgeon Dr Sandeep Attawar.
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