Ukraine’s medical team just pulled off a first-ever child lung transplant
Surgeons at the Heart Institute have officially entered uncharted territory, successfully performing the country's first double-lung transplant on a child.
So, the Heart Institute just did something massive. They took a kid who was struggling with severe lung artery issues and successfully performed the first-ever double lung transplant on a child in Ukraine. Boris Todurov and his team spent eight hours in the OR, basically working on tiny vessels with special magnifying glasses.
The wild part? They had to do it using organs from an 11-year-old donor. Logistics are a total nightmare right now because of the war—they can’t use helicopters to move organs, so they’re stuck racing against the clock in cars while dodging air raids. It’s a miracle they make it at all.
There are over 200 people on their waiting list right now, many of them kids. The irony is that while our doctors are performing surgeries that put us third in Europe for heart transplants, the actual donor rate here is six times lower than the continental average.
Science is doing the heavy lifting while the system plays catch-up.
Source: Ukrinform
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