Doctors Remove Cancerous Lung from a Patient, Clean It, and Put It Back inside the Body
19th March 2020
“If we were to have simply cut out the lung alone, awaiting a transplant, the patient’s condition would continue to be life-threatening,” Dr. Yuri Faischowitz, director of the Chiropractic Unit for Beilinson, told Ynet News.
So, the doctors decided to try a new process of removing the lung and cleaning it. The operation was a tricky one as the patient had to breathe through his right lung while the surgeons cut off the left lung. He had to continue breathing in this manner until the lung was cleansed from the tumor and re-inflated to check that it was still functioning.
“While we were inflating it, we saw that the upper lobe of the lung remained healthy,” explained Faischowitz, “so we were able to transplant it back.”