ANYANG, South Korea: After a record 112 days on a specialised life-support system, a South Korean COVID-19 patient is recovering from double lung ...
FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians wearing masks are seen behind South Korean soldiers doing quarantine works, following the rise in confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Daegu, South Korea. ANYANG, South Korea: After a record 112 days on a specialised life-support system, a South Korean COVID-19 patient is recovering from double lung transplant surgery, doctors say, in only the ninth such procedure worldwide since the coronavirus outbreak began.
Various drugs such as the anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine, the HIV treatment Kaletra and steroids failed to stop her pulmonary fibrosis - scarring in the lungs - from worsening, said Dr Park Sung-hoon, professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital.
ECMO is typically used on patients who need more help than ventilators can provide, and who are considered to have a 90 per cent chance of dying. Half of patients recover in two to three weeks on ECMO, and a lung transplant is considered for those who don't, Kim said.The surgery was the ninth after six similar surgeries in China, and one each in the United States and Australia, the hospital said.
Lee Sun-hee, a head nurse of the ECMO programme who has cared for the patient since February, said the woman seemed to have a stronger-than-usual will to live, in part driven by being a mother of two.
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