US surgeons have performed a double-lung transplant on a patient whose lungs were irreparably damaged by COVID-19. The patient, an Hispanic woman in her 20s, had spent six weeks in the COVID ICU on a ventilator and ECMO at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Dr Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery and surgical director of ...
Lung transplant the only option for young patient with COVID-19
15 Jun 2020