Transplantologists of the Feofania Clinical Hospital in Kiev performed lung transplantation, which became the third transplantation of this organ in Ukraine.
According to the website of the Ministry of Health, the transplant was performed directly by a team from the hospital, whose specialists underwent three months of training in heart and lung transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital (USA).
The new donor organ came from a 51-year-old man who had a complex lung disease and had had a coronavirus disease two weeks before the transplant, which made his condition very difficult.
“The patient was on continuous oxygen support. The operation lasted 12 hours, while the man is in intensive care, his condition is satisfactory,” the Ministry of Health reported.
The donor was a 60-year-old woman who was pronounced brain dead due to a hemorrhagic stroke. The decision made by her relatives saved the lives of three more people: transplantologists of “Feofania” transplanted her liver to a 62-year old man and specialists of the Institute of Nephrology of NAMS of Ukraine and A.A. Shalimov Institute of Surgery and Transplantology transplanted kidneys to two women.
“All the patients who have had their organs transplanted feel satisfactory. The transplanted organs are working. For the patients the whole process of transplantation and lifelong receipt of immunosuppressant drugs is free of charge, the state pays for it,” the Ministry of Health stressed.
