{"id":223125,"date":"2021-04-09T18:29:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T15:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/covid-19-patient-undergoes-first-living-donor-lung-transplant\/"},"modified":"2021-04-09T18:29:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T15:29:38","slug":"covid-19-patient-undergoes-first-living-donor-lung-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/covid-19-patient-undergoes-first-living-donor-lung-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"#COVID-19 patient undergoes first living donor lung transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#COVID-19 patient undergoes first living donor lung transplant<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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A Japanese woman has become the world\u2019s first living lung transplant recipient as part of her recovery from severe COVID-19 illness.<\/p>\n

A team of 30 surgeons and medical staff assisted in the 11-hour operation, which took place at Kyoto University Hospital on Wednesday. The woman from Kansai, whose name was withheld in the announcement, Associated Press has reported<\/a>, had received lung tissue from both her husband and son. <\/p>\n

Many coronavirus patients have received traditional lung transplants from brain-dead organ donors as a result of severe respiratory complications from the deadly disease. However, this case would be the first in history to successfully transfer lung tissue from living donors into the recipient.<\/p>\n

Despite the risks associated with decreased lung capacity, the husband and son made the now-historic decision to give parts of their own lungs to their loved one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there is a lot of hope for this treatment in the sense that it creates a new option,\u201d said Dr. Hiroshi Date, the surgeon who led the groundbreaking procedure, in a statement to Kyodo News<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The woman became sick with COVID-19 late last year, according to Kyoto University Hospital, and developed a case of pneumonia that caused her lungs to shrink and tissue to harden, altogether destroying function. She spent months attached to life support that performed the work of a lung. <\/p>\n

Physicians eventually determined that the risk of coronavirus transmission from the patient to surgeons was low \u2014 that\u2019s when they decided to explore transplantation<\/p>\n

Now, her husband and son are in stable condition as they heal from surgery, while the woman remains under close watch in the intensive care unit. She is expected to make a full recovery and be discharged in about eight weeks, the hospital said. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s taken years of development by Kyoto University researchers<\/a> to make this breakthrough procedure viable, which has the potential to extend the lives of otherwise unviable transplantation candidates, such as those who would be too ill to wait for a lung from recently deceased donors. <\/p>\n

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Kyoto University researchers have spent years studying and preparing to undergo the first successful living lung transplant. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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