[Southern + November 13th] According to media reports, the Haute-Seine Fork Hospital in France performed a lung transplant on a patient with acute respiratory failure caused by the new coronavirus on November 1. This is the first severe case of new coronary lung transplantation in France. So far, it is progressing smoothly.
According to reports, this patient's new coronavirus pneumonia severely damaged his respiratory system. Despite several weeks of intensive care, there is still no sign of improvement, so lung transplantation is urgently needed. Professor Edouard Sage, director of the lung transplant program at
Fokker Hospital, said that choosing this unique treatment option must be done with caution, because the recovery of lung transplant patients is often long and difficult. At present, the patient's follow-up rehabilitation treatment is progressing smoothly.
This is not the world's first lung transplant for a severely ill patient with new coronary disease.
On February 29, 2020, with the support of the Jiangsu Provincial Health Commission, the Wuxi health system broke the routine and integrated all medical resources. The representative of the National People’s Congress, the director of the lung transplantation department of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, and the vice hospital of Wuxi People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University The leader of Professor Chen Jingyu's team performed the world's first lung transplantation with new coronary pneumonia. The patient's vital signs after surgery were stable and his condition was stable.
On June 5, 2020, Northwestern hospital in Chicago, USA completed the first double lung transplant operation for a severely ill patient with new coronary pneumonia in the United States. He has been discharged from the hospital and his condition is stable. The success of lung transplantation in severe cases of new coronary disease has opened the door of hope for severely ill patients and is of great significance to the reduction of mortality.
proofreading: Feng Zhijian
