ANN ARBOR, Mich. (WJRT) – (21.02.21) – The University of Michigan School of Medicine reported that this could be the first proven case of COVID-19 transmission through an organ transplant.
Research in the American Journal of Transplantation has shown that a woman in Ann Arbor contracted COVID-19 and died last fall after receiving a contaminated double-lung transplant.
He said the organ donor had the virus, although they had shown no signs of illness and were initially negative.
The researchers said that, three days after the operation, the beneficiary’s health condition decreased. They said evidence from her new lungs returned positive for COVID-19.
Doctors said a surgeon who treated the donor’s lungs was also infected with the virus, but later recovered.
The case called for more detailed testing of lung transplant donors.
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