(CNN) Doctors at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit performed what they believe is the United States' first double lung transplant on a patient whose lungs were damaged after vaping, according to the hospital. He was admitted to the hospital on September 5 with what looked like pneumonia. "It is a senseless disease process," Dr. Hassan Nemeh, the thoracic surgeon on the transplant team, said at a press conference Tuesday. Nemeh is the surgical director of thoracic organ transplant at Henry Ford Hospital. "Our teenage patient would have faced certain death if it weren't for the lung transplant."

Source: CNN November 13, 2019 00:28 UTC