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Three days after a woman received a double-lung transplant at a Michigan hospital last fall, she became seriously ill. She had difficulty breathing and a high…
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.