Transplant a promising cure for COVID-19 lung injury: first Australian case
The patient developed COVID-19-related pneumonia, which progressed to fibrotic lung disease.
Australia’s first patient to undergo a lung transplant to treat an irreversible COVID-19-related lung injury has had a successful outcome, his doctors say.
After spending almost six months on venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, the 61-year-old underwent the bilateral lung transplant when his lung function failed to improve.
