Kyoto University Hospital announced that it had succeeded in performing surgery to transplant a part of the lungs provided by the husband and son to a female patient who was infected with the new coronavirus and suffered from pneumonia and suffered from severe lung sequelae.
According to the hospital, this is the first living-donor lung transplant in the world for patients suffering from lung sequelae due to the new coronavirus.
This was revealed at a press conference by Professor Hiroshi Date, who was the director of the Department of Respiratory Surgery at Kyoto University Hospital on the 8th.
According to it, it was a female patient living in Kansai who had a lung transplant.
Last year, the woman was infected with the new coronavirus and suffered from severe pneumonia, and was treated with a heart-lung machine (ECMO), after which a negative result was confirmed.
However, on the 7th, the woman's husband and son donated it because both lungs became fibrotic and almost stopped functioning, and the family offered to donate organs because recovery was not expected. It means that he had an operation to transplant a part of the left and right lungs.
The operation was completed successfully in nearly 11 hours, and the woman is currently receiving medical treatment in the intensive care unit, but if she recovers as it is, she is expected to be able to return to society in three months.
The progress of the husband and son is also good.
According to Kyoto University, it is the first time in the world for a living-donor lung transplant to a patient with lung aftereffects with the new corona. Will be a hopeful treatment. "