Facing ‘certain death,’ boy with vaping injury gets double lung transplant

(Henry Ford Health system via The New York Times) Dr. Hassan Nemeh, who performed the first double-lung transplant of a patient injured by vaping, points to a scan of the patient’s empty-looking lungs before the surgery during a news conference at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, on Nov. 12, 2019. The surgery on the 17-year-old was the first transplant reported in the recent nationwide outbreak of vaping-related lung injuries. A 17-year-old boy whose lungs were irreversibly damaged by vaping received a double-lung transplant at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, a lifesaving measure taken when a patient’s own lungs are diseased or damaged beyond repair and there is no other hope of survival, doctors said Tuesday.

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