Doctors at a Detroit hospital have performed a double lung transplant on a man whose lungs were damaged from vaping.
DETROIT —
No other details of the transplant were released Monday by Henry Ford Health System, which has scheduled a news conference Tuesday. The patient has asked his medical team to share photographs and an update to warn others about vaping. More than 2,000 Americans who vape have gotten sick since March, many of them teenagers and young adults, and at least 40 people have died.
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