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Lung transplant ‘only hope’ for some severe COVID patients, scientists warn – Yahoo India News
In severe cases, the infection can destroy the ‘fundamental framework’ of the organs.
Scientists have warned a double-lung transplant may be necessary in critically-ill coronavirus patients. (Stock, Getty Images)
The coronavirus can damage lungs so severely that a transplant is a patients only hope, scientists have said.
Early research suggests the infection is mild in four out of five cases, however, it can trigger an inflammatory disease called COVID-19.
Scientists from the Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago analysed discarded lung tissue from severely-ill patients who had…
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