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A Michigan woman who received a double lung transplant died two months after contracting COVID-19. It turned out that the donor had coronavirus, doctors say.
The virus was transmitted when lungs from a woman who died from injuries suffered in a car accident, were transplanted into a woman with chronic obstructive lung disease last fall, according to
PEOPLE. The procedure was conducted at the University Hospital in Ann Arbor, where a surgeon who handled the lungs was also infected but later recovered. The donor and recipient initially tested negative for the virus, but when the recipient fell severely ill days after the transplant surgery, she was tested again and the results were positive.
The case poses a dilemma for transplant doctors: People who need organ transplants are at high risk for dying without them, but there s no way to definitively prove an organ donor might not be carrying a disease like COVID-19. You can t 100% prove that someone doesn t have something because we don t have perfect tests, Kaul said. So we try and put together a combination of their exposures, their clinical history, testing, radiology like a CT-scan of the lung of the donor, which was done and didn t show anything that looked like COVID. We do all those things and say, Well, as best we can determine, this donor is safe to use. But unfortunately in this case, there was asymptomatic COVID that was not detected by the standard testing.
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