Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago said it believes this is the first time such an operation on a Covid-19 patient has been performed successfully in the US
The hospital said it believes this is the first time such an operation on a Covid-19 patient has been performed successfully in the United States, and it offers new hope for patients with extensive lung damage from coronavirus infection.Why overcoming Covid-19 is just the first hurdle of a much longer journey The patient, a Hispanic woman in her 20s, spent six weeks on a ventilator and an ECMO machine while in the hospital's intensive care unit as her body fought the coronavirus infection.
Now the medical team wants to learn more about the patient's sickness and recovery. "How did a healthy woman in her 20s get to this point?" Dr. Rade Tomic, a pulmonologist and medical director of the Lung Transplant Program, said in the press release. "There's still so much we have yet to learn about COVID-19. Why are some cases worse than others? The multidisciplinary research team at Northwestern Medicine is trying to find out," Tomic said.
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