{"id":108538,"date":"2020-06-11T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/covid-19-patient-gets-double-lung-transplant-offering-hope-for-others"},"modified":"2020-06-11T10:02:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:02:42","slug":"covid-19-patient-gets-double-lung-transplant-offering-hope-for-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/covid-19-patient-gets-double-lung-transplant-offering-hope-for-others","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 Patient Gets Double Lung Transplant, Offering Hope for Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/covid-19-patient-gets-double-lung-transplant-offering-hope-for-others2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe operation is believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S. The patient, a woman in her 20s, had been healthy, but the coronavirus devastated her lungs.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A young woman whose lungs were destroyed by the coronavirus received a double lung transplant last week at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, the hospital reported on Thursday, the first known lung transplant in the United States for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-hour surgery was more difficult and took several hours longer than most lung transplants because inflammation from the disease had left the woman\u2019s lungs \u201ccompletely plastered to tissue around them, the heart, the chest wall and diaphragm,\u201d said Dr. Ankit Bharat, the chief of thoracic surgery and surgical director of <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nm.org\/conditions-and-care-areas\/organ-transplantation\/lung-transplantation\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the lung transplant program<\/a> at Northwestern Medicine, which includes Northwestern Memorial Hospital, in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>He said the patient, a woman in her 20s who had no serious underlying medical conditions, was recovering well: \u201cShe\u2019s awake, she\u2019s smiling, she FaceTimed with her family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe operation is believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S. The patient, a woman in her 20s, had been healthy, but the coronavirus devastated her lungs.\u201d A young woman whose lungs were destroyed by the coronavirus received a double lung transplant last week at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, the hospital [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}