The hospital did something different Feb. 25 by transplanting both lungs from a COVID patient into another COVID patient.
The donated lungs came from a patient who had a mild-to-moderate case of COVID, recovered, and then died of unrelated causes, the hospital said. “I was a healthy guy with no underlying health conditions, but my symptoms started with a fever and quickly got worse,” Aquino said in the news release. “On May 14, I called my niece and said, ‘I can’t breathe – I’m going to the emergency department.’ From that day on, my life completely changed.”
His niece, Tasha Sundstrom, heard that Northwester doctors performed lung transplants and Aquino was moved to that hospital.
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