Hyderabad: First double lung transplant Covid patient discharged

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 received lungs from a brain-dead person in Kolkata, was suffering from sarcoidosis, leading to fibrosis of the lungs.
Doctors from a city-based hospital, who were treating 32-year-old Rizwan, put him on the lung transplant waitlist after they observed that his condition was rapidly deteriorating.A double lung transplant was the only permanent option. The situation worsened when the patient contracted Covid-19 while waiting for the lungs.
“Fortunately, a match to his lungs was found in a person declared brain dead in Kolkata, and the harvested lungs were airlifted to Hyderabad,” said Dr Sandeep Attawar, transplant surgeon, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) Hospitals.