A young woman whose lungs were destroyed by the coronavirus received a double lung transplant last week at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, the hospital reported on Thursday, the first known lung transplant in the United States for Covid-19. The 10-hour surgery was more difficult and took several hours longer than most lung transplants because… Read More »
10 and 15 years after smoking cessation. Norman Edelman, chief medical officer of the American Lung Association, explains. 473 0 0 0 534 88. It’s an important scientific can quitting smoking reverse lung damage to understand what the differences are, and we’re beginning to work on it. Rather they are replaced by healthy cells that… Read More »
A 17-year-old boy in Michigan is believed to be the first patient to undergo a double lung transplant as a result of irreversible damage done to his organs via vaping. In a press conference on Tuesday, surgeons at Henry Ford Hospital said that without the transplant he would have died. The teen, pictured during the hospital transfer, “faced… Read More »