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Australian COVID-19 patient successfully cured with a lung transplant
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Australian researchers have reported the first case of successfully giving a patient a lung transplant after irreversible lung injury as a result of a COVID-19 infection. The previously healthy 61-year-old man spent six months in hospital after initially presenting with respiratory failure and a positive COVID-19 test, with various complications leaving him on life support. The man was given a transplant for both lungs in mid 2023, and was able to go home 20 days after the transplant. The researchers say the man remained healthy as of 2024, and while long-term survival data is not yet available for COVID-19-related lung transplants, research so far indicates the outcomes are similar to lung transplants unrelated to COVID-19.
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