
Michigan woman dies from COVID-19 after lung transplant: study
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A Michigan woman contracted COVID-19 and died last fall after she got a double-lung transplant from a donor who turned out to have the virus, according to a study.
"We would absolutely not have used the lungs if we’d had a positive COVID test," Dr. Daniel Kaul, director of the Transplant Infectious Disease Service at the University of Michigan Medical School and one of the co-authors of the study, told Kaiser Health News. All the screening that we normally do and are able to do, we did," Kaul added. The donor was a woman from the Upper Midwest who died after suffering from a severe brain injury in a car accident. The recipient had chronic obstructive lung disease and was operated on at University Hospital in Ann Arbor.More Related News