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A medical team from
the Kyoto University Hospital
in western
Japan
announced this Thursday that it has successfully performed the first lung transplant from living donors to a patient with severe lung damage caused by Covid-19.
The patient is a woman affected by pneumonia after contracting
coronavirus
at the end of last year, and to whom assisted respiration was applied after her lungs were damaged by the virus, according to the aforementioned center in a statement.
A medical team made up of about 30 specialists performed the transplant operation on the eve, and the patient has evolved favorably since then.
The patient, who has already tested negative for
Covid-19
and has been on assisted respiration for three months, is expected to be discharged within two months and can lead a normal life in another month.
The donors were the patient's husband and son, who donated part of their left and right lungs respectively.
According to the Kyoto University Hospital, this is the first operation of its kind in the world to be carried out successfully from living donors.
Previously, several dozen lung transplant operations from brain-dead donors had been performed in other countries, but none of these characteristics, the Japanese hospital specified in its note.
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