By AFP More by this AuthorWASHINGTONA 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. "Her lungs just showed no signs of recovery, in fact they had started to develop terminal fibrosis," Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at the Northwestern Medicine Lung Transplant Program told AFP. It is the first time a double-lung transplant for a Covid-19 patient has taken place in the US. Before the US patient could receive the transplant, she had to test negative for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19.

Source: Daily Nation June 12, 2020 02:25 UTC