A 55-year-old man whose lungs were damaged as a result of COVID, had a bilateral lung transplant at a private facility after donor organs were transported 950 km in three hours, according to a statement, as per PTI.?
The surgery occurred at Max Hospital, Saket, and the hospital said it is the first time in North India that this was done.
The patient hails from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh and was suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).?
¡°He was on high flow oxygen and required intermittent BIPAP support.?The only option that could save his life was a lung transplant," said the hospital's statement.
At the hospital, he had been put on the waiting list for lung transplants by a heart-lung transplant team led by Dr Rahul Chandola.
On December 22, the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization informed about a donor in Ahmedabad who was brain dead.?
The donor was a 44-year-old man who died due to a brain hemorrhage.
"This patient had come to us with bullous lung disease, where the lung had already developed multiple bullae or balloon-like structures and the patient was finding it difficult to breathe. He had been on oxygen for almost about a year now and was not improving and there was no other treatment for it," said Dr Vivek Nangia, Principle Director and Head of Pulmonology in Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket Complex.
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