A Hispanic woman in her 20s has become the first person in the United States to receive a double-lung transplant for COVID-19, offering hope for other
She had spent six weeks in the intensive care unit of Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, where a life support machine performed the work of her heart and lungs, keeping her alive."Her lungs just showed no signs of recovery, in fact it started to develop terminal fibrosis," Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at the Northwestern Medicine Lung Transplant Program told AFP.
This was partly because the lungs had become stuck to the surrounding structures and were difficult to remove. The world's first double-lung transplant was performed in Toronto in 1986 by G. Alexander Patterson, under whom Bharat, who is originally from India, also trained. It is very unusual for a young woman to have suffered such extensive lung damage from the coronavirus, and doctors hope to study her closely to learn more about why this happened.
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