Surgeons in Chicago have given a new set of lungs to a young woman with severe lung damage from the coronavirus, Northwestern Medicine announced.
Only a few other Covid-19 survivors, in China and Europe, have received lung transplants.
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The patient, a 20-year-old Hispanic woman, was on a ventilator and heart-lung machine for almost two months before her operation last Friday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.