The 50-year-old woman was diagnosed with COVID-19 and hospitalised in late February and then spent 16 weeks on oxygen support.
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.
The surgery was the ninth after six similar surgeries in China, and one each in the United States and Australia, the hospital said.
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