infection and invasive ventilation techniques had resulted in the organ thinning
ROME – The first trachea transplant in Italy and the first in the world to be performed on a post Covid-19 patient was carried out in Rome, at the Sant’Andrea University Polyclinic in Rome.
“The damage resulting from the Sars-Cov2 infection and the invasive ventilation techniques that became necessary during the disease, caused the thinning of the trachea which almost completely prevented breathing, making it necessary to perform the surgery”, explain the doctors. who today presented the operation in a press conference with the rector of the Sapienza University of Rome, Antonella Polimeni, and the Lazio Region Health Councilor Alessio D’Amato.
The transplant was performed on March 2 in thoracic surgery of Sant’Andrea, a university hospital of the Sapienza network and a highly specialized company in the Lazio Region.
“The patient, a 50-year-old man from Sicily, immediately awakened was immediately able to breathe and speak independently; after a three-week hospitalization and a regular post-operative course, he resumed his normal life, returning to his work and his city “, underlines the note from Sapienza.
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