Chinese doctors perform world’s first double-lung transplant

Doctors in China have performed the world’s first double-lung transplant on a 59-year-old .

Dr. Chen Jingyu, vice president of the Wuxi People’s Hospital in Jiangsu province, and his team performed the five-hour operation on a man who was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Jan. 26, the Global Times reported.

It took seven hours to transport the lungs from a brain-dead donor to the hospital aboard a high-speed train, the news outlet reported.

The lungs have been working well since the Saturday surgery and the patient’s vital signs were stable, Chen told the Global Times.

The man eventually tested negative for the disease, but had suffered irreversible pulmonary damage during his illness.

“The next step is to closely observe the patient, explore the perioperative management of the patient, perform anti-rejection and anti-infection follow-up treatment, and summarize the treatment experience for such advanced COVID-19 infection cases,” Chen told the outlet.

“It was a highly risky surgery since all surgeons had to stay in a negative pressure room during the entire operation wearing whole-body protective suits,” Chen added.

Nurses assemble the plastic facial shields recycled in a hospital designated for COVID-19 patients.

The surgeon noted three important prerequisites for lung transplantation in coronavirus patients.

First, the person’s breathing must have been maintained by a ventilator while undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, via a machine that replaces the function of the heart and lungs.

Second, the patient’s repeated nucleic acid tests — which diagnose COVlD-19 — must be negative.

Finally, the patient’s other organs have to be functioning normally.

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China just keeps blowing it out the park via healthcare. Kind of crazy what you can get done in a non democratic system.

 

[Coldgrip]

Once again, china lags behind western medicine.

So any bets on where the lungs came from? I'm guessing one of those uyghur muslims.

 

[BSC]

Shitty bait thread

 

[Turnip_Head]

1. Double lung has been done before.
2. 99% chance the lungs were a harvested organ.

 

[Male Idiot]

Nah could be lol donated lol by those Falun Gongs as well as kebab.

 

[The Saltening]

Once again, china lags behind western medicine.

So any bets on where the lungs came from? I'm guessing one of those uyghur muslims.

hopefully

 

[PTNR 2.0]

I assume this is the first double lung transplant done on a COVID-19 patient maybe? Because I've seen CF patients with double lung transplants for years in my department.

 

[The Dude]

Its a good thing that China has all those Falun Gong practitioners, Uighrs, and other religious people in concentration camps as "prisoners of conscience" to murder to harvest their organs. In the West it can take months or even years to get an organ transplant. In China you can have your new organs ripped out of someone whose only crime was believing in a higher power than the Party in a matter of days or a couple weeks at most.

 

[derpherp2]

inb4 these lungs get infected by the wu flu and the patient has to have ANOTHER lung transplant.

Or the virus mutates the discarded lungs, gives it sentience, and hunts the guy down as revenge.

 

[Eggplant Wizard]

A bit on topic as far as China lagging behind Western science: I do recall reading a magazine article while at a doctor’s appointment about how Engineering professors in the US were annoyed with Chinese students coming in to get their Masters degree and being TAs not knowing information that all Bachelor students were required to know before graduating.