CHICAGO — Northwestern Medicine surgeons have successfully performed a double lung transplant on a man with terminal lung cancer, they announced Thursday — an extremely rare surgery that could open
“I think we will be able to help some patients who would otherwise die because of lack of conventional treatments,” said Dr. Ankit Bharat, Northwestern chief of thoracic surgery.
For many COVID-19 patients with irrecoverable lung damage, transplantation is the only option for survival. However, there is limited information about the long-term outcomes of these patients, including postoperative complications, hospital length of stay and survival.