WOW
Appalling case, but dont tell me it hasnt happened in the US.
Donor screening nonexistent?
No surprise. When a smoker quits, the cardiovascular mortality decreases very soon. The lung cancer risk is never eliminated.
A college classmate of mine got a heart-lung transplant at about the same age. I did not hear that the donor was a smoker. He too died shortly after. These operations are not trivial, and a life with CF leaves a weakened body, transplant or no transplant.
The UK NHS is rapidly becoming a disaster.
This is probably a situation in which they used the smokere’s lungs on somebody whom they did not expect to survive and gave better ones to those whom were expected to survive.
Brittish (Government) Healthcare at it finest!
Boy, I can’t wait for Obamacare!!!
“The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust said: “It is very rare for patients to specify that they do not wish to be considered for clinically healthy lungs from smokers.”
“This is because the risks are much higher if patients decline donor lungs from a former smoker, and decide to wait for another set of organs which are both a match for them and from a non-smoker, to become available.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-20762437
They still should have let her know, though.
The Over/Under of posters who comment after only reading the headline and fail to read the rest which says she had to take the lungs because she had no choice and would have died waiting for the “perfect” lungs to come along
80%
Poor young lady. RIP.
Second hand smoke kills...
I’m not impressed with the dog whistle. She may have died anyway.
Amazing bad luck.