A Japanese woman whose lungs were severely damaged by Covid-19 has received what doctors say is the world’s first lung transplant from living donors to a recovered coronavirus patient.
The husband and son are in a stable condition and the woman remains in intensive care. She’s expected to be able to leave the hospital in about two months, according to the hospital.
In June last year, US surgeons performed a successful double lung transplant on a Covid-19 patient — believed to be the first such operation on a coronavirus patient in the country.
Last month, US surgeons completed a “Covid to Covid” double lung transplant, using lungs from a donor who recovered from Covid-19, only to die from another cause, for a patient in his 60s whose lungs were damaged by the disease.
A study released earlier this year of more than 1,700 patients treated in the Chinese city of Wuhan — ground zero of the pandemic — found that X-rays of severely ill patients showed evidence of lung damage months after their infection.
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