My donor saved me twice : Double lung transplant recipient survives COVID-19 Share Updated: 9:42 PM EST Jan 19, 2021 By Kathy Walsh, KCNC SOURCE: KCNC via CNN Share Updated: 9:42 PM EST Jan 19, 2021 By Kathy Walsh, KCNC In 2016, a double lung transplant saved the life of a Colorado Springs woman. In 2020, those lungs were tested when she caught COVID-19.Linda Regis said her organ donor saved her life a second time, she told KCNC-TV.“My lung capacity was to where I couldn’t breathe anymore,” Regis explained.Linda had end stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). For 8 years, she depended on oxygen.“Me looking probably at the end of surviving,” she said, describing her declining health.But in November 2016, Regis had a double lung transplant at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. She was given the lungs of a 32-year-old Colorado man, Shakespeare Log, who died from a brain aneurysm.Three years la
Double lung transplant recipient survives Covid: My donor saved me twice
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Last spring, as healthcare providers and scientists around the world scrambled to treat a surge of patients infected with a virus that experts knew little about, one thing quickly became clear: SARS-CoV-2 strikes people differently.
Faced with solving a mega-puzzle on a timer when minutes cost lives, clinical practice early in the pandemic became a fervent game of trial and error.
Now, on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, where the then-new Vice Chancellor for Research Thomas Flaig, MD, had the fortitude and resources to create a biobank of samples from some of the state’s first COVID-19 patients, a promising venture has sprung.