(NPR) 1st-Known U.S. Lung Transplant For COVID-19 Patient Performed In Chicago
The lungs of a young woman in her 20s became so damaged by COVID-19 that she could not survive without her blood being oxygenated outside her body, on an ECMO machine. She received a double lung transplant on June 5. In this photo taken before the transplant, the patient is being monitored by the ECMO team at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
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