Double-lung transplant on COVID-19 patient offers hope for othersThis image released by Northwestern Medicine, shows transplant surgeon, Ankit Bharat, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, where surgeons have performed a double-lung transplant on a COVID-19 patientWASHINGTON - A Hispanic woman in her 20s has become the first person in the United States to receive a double-lung transplant for COVID-19, offering hope for other critically-ill coronavirus patients, her doctor said Thursday. But by early June her lungs had become so badly damaged that a transplant was her only hope. It is the first time a double-lung transplant for a COVID-19 patient has taken place in the US. The world's first double-lung transplant was performed in Toronto in 1986 by G. Alexander Patterson, under whom Bharat, who is originally from India, also trained. Before the US patient could receive the transplant, she had to test negative for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

Source: Bangkok Post June 11, 2020 19:07 UTC