The Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona has performed
three lung transplants on the same person for the first time in Spain
, the center's head of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, Alberto Jáuregui, explained this Friday to Europa Press.
Jáuregui has specified that the recipient is a
24-year-old woman who suffers from cystic fibrosis
, a genetic disease that affects the lungs, the digestive system and other organs of the body and that it manifested itself in her first months of life.
As a result of the cystic fibrosis that she suffered as a disease of origin, the patient received a
first double-lung transplant in 2016
after presenting a pneumothorax as a complication.
In 2019 the patient presented chronic rejection of the organs, for which she required a second transplant of both lungs as it is the only treatment currently available, explains the doctor.
Recently, the hospital has performed a third double-lung transplant on him, since he
has again presented rejection of the lungs from the second transplant
, and Jáuregui has highlighted that it is a "very exceptional situation".
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