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Hundreds of patients have received lung transplants due to COVID-19 in the United States. According to data from the United Network for Organ Transplants (UNOS), in the U.S., about one in 10 lung transplants now go to COVID-19 patients.
Jul 22, 2021 · From January to March 2021, the lung transplant program at UF Health Shands Hospital performed more lung transplants to treat patients whose lungs had been damaged by COVID-19 than anywhere else in the United States, according to data from United Network for Organ Sharing.
To the best of our knowledge, we performed the first COVID-to-COVID transplant, which involved transplanting lungs from a donor who had recovered from COVID-19 and appeared not to have lung damage into another patient with COVID-19 infection.
Jan 26, 2022 · There are case reports of lung transplantation for respiratory failure due to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), but uncertainty surrounds patient selection, clinical outcomes, and the ...
Mar 31, 2021 · We provide evidence of the reproducibility of lung transplantation in carefully selected patients with severe COVID-19 and we show, for the first time, that short-term post-transplantation outcomes can be achieved that are similar to those of transplant recipients without COVID-19.
The analysis of more than 3,000 lung transplants in the U.S. between Aug. 1, 2020, and Sept. 30, 2021, showed that during the pandemic, 7% of the nation’s lung transplants were performed to treat severe, irreversible lung damage caused by COVID-19.
Nov 28, 2021 · Lung transplants for COVID patients rose tenfold between the first year of the pandemic and 2021, according to UNOS data, which also shows transplants for other top lung diseases, like...
