Transplants

A New Mexico man who spent more than 100 days in the hospital and on a ventilator after contracting the novel coronavirus has undergone a life-saving double lung transplant, according to the hospital where he was treated. 

A Milwaukee woman left the hospital last week after a long battle against COVID-19 that involved a double lung transplant, says a university release.

The coronavirus survivor is urging others to wear a mask for the sake of protecting themselves and others.

Texas surgeons performed a double lung transplant after the novel coronavirus damaged the lungs of a 70-year-old man.

After two years of searching, a California man finally received a new liver during a live donor transplant last May – just a week apart from when his nephew donated his liver to another man, according to a report.

A Texas man has donated a kidney to his wife in need, weeks after the transplant was delayed due to the ongoing coronavirus epidemic in the U.S. that temporarily halted elective surgeries in the Lone Star State and elsewhere. 

Organ transplants plummeted as COVID-19 swept through communities, with surgeons wary of endangering living donors and unable to retrieve possibly usable organs from the dead -- and hospitals sometimes too full even when they could.

The United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) has rolled out a new liver transplant distribution system. early a dozen hospitals across the country filed a lawsuit to try and stop the new policy but a judge ruled in UNOS's favor.

A Scottish man said it was a “no-brainer” to give him mother a kidney when she was told she would die without a transplant.