Japanese Doctors Perform World's First Living Donor Lung Transplant in COVID-19 Patient

MariTi Blaise Lovell. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/asia/202104091082587418-japanese-doctors-perform-worlds-first-living-donor-lung-transplant-in-covid-19-patient-/ Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have determined that the respiratory illness causes severe lung damage, with some patients even undergoing lung transplants as part of their recovery. A January study found that more than 1,700 patients from Wuhan, China, were found to have evidence of lung damage months after their infection. Doctors in Japan have performed what they say is the world's first lung transplant from living donors to a COVID-19 patient, Dr. Hiroshi Date, the director of the Department of Respiratory Surgery at Kyoto University Hospital, revealed at a Thursday…