US Covid-19 survivor becomes first person to receive double lung transplant

According to Bharat, the organ transplantation may become more frequent for COVID-19 patients who are at a critical stage as the virus most commonly attacks the respiratory system

A former COVID-19 patient has become the first person in the United States (US) to undergo a double-lung transplant surgery since the pandemic began.

The woman, who is in her 20s, was on immunosuppressant medication for the previous condition when she contracted the lethal infection, which might have affected her lungs, informed Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery and surgical director of Northwestern's lung transplant programme to Washington Post.

She developed secondary bacterial infections that could not be controlled by antibiotics because her lungs were so badly affected, he said while adding that the doctors repeatedly tested fluid from her lungs to be