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Commentary: Center marks 5,000 life-saving transplants in San Antonio Dr. Francisco G. Cigarroa, For the Express-News Jan. 29, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail In Dr. Deborah Levine, right, and Dr. Edward Sako, center, of the University Health lung transplant program, discuss a patient during rounds in November. It’s been 50 years since the first transplant at the University Transplant Center, which recently marked its 5,000th solid organ transplant.Bob Owen /San Antonio Express-News While 2020 was a difficult year in which COVID-19 claimed the lives of so many, University Transplant Center pushed forward, as generous organ donors allowed us to save lives through the miracle of transplant surgery. ....
Skip to main content Currently Reading This could be you : COVID patient who underwent double lung transplant in San Antonio urges precautions against virus FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Dr. Deborah Levine, left, is medical director of the lung transplant program at University Hospital in San Antonio. Dr. Edward Sako, center, a cardiothoracic surgeon and faculty member at UT Health San Antonio, led the team that performed a double lung transplant on Jose Sosa, whose lungs were destroyed by the coronavirus, in October.Bob Owen /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Dr. Deborah Levine, right, is medical director of the lung transplant program at University Hospital in San Antonio. Dr. Edward Sako, second from left, a cardiothoracic surgeon and faculty member at UT Health San Antonio, led the team that performed a double lung transplant on Jose Sosa, whose lungs were destroyed by the coronavirus, in October.Bob Owen /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow ....
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Local man is first COVID-19 lung transplant patient and last updated 2020-12-10 12:37:52-05 CORPUS CHRISTI, TX â At 39-years-old, local Corpus Christi man, Jose Sosa now has a new pair of lungs that he can breath out of. On July 4th, Sosa was admitted to a local hospital because he had contracted COVID-19. He was on a ventilator, then put on ECMO, or Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. A device positioned outside of the body that would help pump blood and oxygen throughout his body. An experience that Sosa did not expect. In a private conference with two UT Health System doctors, Dr. Debbie Levine and Dr. Edward Sako, he said he expected to go to the hospital for a couple weeks then head home. ....