HYDERABAD: The first Covid-19 patient in the country to receive a double lung transplant was discharged from a city hospital on Friday. The 32-year-old patient who hails from Chandigarh in Punjab received lungs from a brain-dead person in Kolkata, he suffered from sarcoidosis which significantly affected his lungs, leading to fibrosis of the lungs.
Doctors at a city-based hospital who were treating Rizwan, 32, put him on the waiting list for a lung transplant after noting that his condition was deteriorating rapidly and that the double lung transplant it was the only permanent option for a cure. . However, the situation worsened when the patient contracted Covid-19 while waiting for his donor organs. According to the doctors, the patient’s oxygen requirement increased from 15 liters per minute to 50 liters per minute during the last eight weeks before the lung transplant was performed.
“The patient had a severe case of pulmonary sarcoidosis and Covid-19 only complicated the precarious lung condition. Fortunately, a match for his lungs was found in a person declared brain dead in Kolkata, and the removed lungs were flown to Hyderabad to save the patient’s life, ”said Dr. Sandeep Attawar, transplant surgeon at the Institute of Krishna Medical Sciences (KIMS) Hospitals. Attawar further reported that the procedure was complex and had little margin for error, and that only a timely lung transplant helped save the patient.
Considered a highly qualified professional in the field of transplantation surgeries with an experience of more than 24 years, Attawar has so far performed more than 12,000 heart surgeries and more than 250 transplant surgeries for lungs, heart and artificial heart implants ( DAVI).
Doctors at a city-based hospital who were treating Rizwan, 32, put him on the waiting list for a lung transplant after noting that his condition was deteriorating rapidly and that the double lung transplant it was the only permanent option for a cure. . However, the situation worsened when the patient contracted Covid-19 while waiting for his donor organs. According to the doctors, the patient’s oxygen requirement increased from 15 liters per minute to 50 liters per minute during the last eight weeks before the lung transplant was performed.
“The patient had a severe case of pulmonary sarcoidosis and Covid-19 only complicated the precarious lung condition. Fortunately, a match for his lungs was found in a person declared brain dead in Kolkata, and the removed lungs were flown to Hyderabad to save the patient’s life, ”said Dr. Sandeep Attawar, transplant surgeon at the Institute of Krishna Medical Sciences (KIMS) Hospitals. Attawar further reported that the procedure was complex and had little margin for error, and that only a timely lung transplant helped save the patient.
Considered a highly qualified professional in the field of transplantation surgeries with an experience of more than 24 years, Attawar has so far performed more than 12,000 heart surgeries and more than 250 transplant surgeries for lungs, heart and artificial heart implants ( DAVI).
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