A 1-year-old girl became the youngest lung transplant recipient in Japan on Thursday after being given the organs taken from a brain-dead boy, according to a hospital in western Japan’s Okayama Prefecture, which performed the surgery.
A 1-year-old girl became the youngest lung transplant recipient in Japan on Thursday after being given the organs taken from a brain-dead boy, according to a hospital in western Japan’s Okayama Prefecture, which performed the surgery.
The girl suffers from pulmonary hypertension, or high blood pressure in the lungs, particularly affecting the blood vessels that supply them. If the lung arteries and capillaries are too narrow or become blocked, it could eventually cause the heart muscle to weaken and fail.
