Guangzhou man smoking 40 years in the lungs become 'plastic' recently accepted a lung transplant

17 years old started smoking andyliu never imagined, his this & other; Hobbies & throughout; Let his lungs became a hard & other; Plastic & throughout; , swells the lungs without elasticity, to resist the ribs cannot breathe, after eight days and eight nights, he was unable to sleep.

but more surprises him, at the same time, guangzhou Red Cross inherited a brain death patients independent donor organs, looking for more than two hundred hospitals, finally found the andyliu the appropriate receptor. A pair of full of elasticity, arrived in wuhan is like cotton candy of lung in andyliu made his home in the chest.

40 years

let both lungs into swelling balloon

& other; Human lung like a balloon, cheer after a long time, the excessive expansion, has become a & lsquo; Swelling balloon & rsquo; 。 He had obstructive emphysema is in the same way, the gas can come in, but couldn't go out, will eventually respiratory failure. ” Tongji hospital heart-lung transplantation center director professor wei zifeng on April 28th andyliu accepts the old smokers.

andyliu is 57, caidian, began to smoke when I was 17, a firm two packs of cigarettes a day, even after fish emphysema in 2012, he remained calm. Until April of this year, he began to seriously pant.

andyliu has senile chronic obstructive emphysema, due to illness has been very serious, conventional drugs and surgery has no cure, the only good way only a lung transplant surgery. But the question is, where is the donor.

　　“ The original breathing can so easily & throughout;

at the same time, a donor and waiting for the recipients. On May 4, a vascular malformations of hubei zhang hui ( Not his real name) Invalid after treatment in guangzhou, the family decided to donate zhang hui's body, extending its life. On May 8, after again confirmed that zhang hui has brain death, the local Red Cross began looking for the right organ recipients.

zhang hui bilateral kidneys, liver, heart, bilateral corneal screening to suitable transplant patients immediately, but it is hard to find a lung transplant recipients. After contact with more than two hundred national transplant hospital, the local Red Cross has finally reached wuhan tongji hospital heart-lung transplant center, after confirmation by the donor conditions, both sides hit it off.

inquire after illness, only half an hour, professor wei zifeng is ready for surgical items lead four medical staff on a flight to guangzhou. Under the witness of the Red Cross, the doctor and family members held a farewell ceremony, five organs begin to cut the surgical team. In wuhan, the patient is ready. On May 9 in the morning, after more than eight hours of continuous work, double lung smoothly into andyliu chest in turn.

this surgery marks in central China's first brain death organ donation double lung transplant success.

when surgery doctor Chen told reporters, the wuhan evening news andyliu hard when taken out of the lungs, such as plastic, grey color, shading, and zhang hui donated lungs like cotton candy, soft and elastic.

yesterday, the reporter is in the hospital saw andyliu, he excitedly said: & other; The original breathing can so easily. ” Lung transplantation (

no organ transplantation of insufficient hundred cases per year 5% of the total

why contacted more than two hundred local Red Cross hospital to find lung organ recipients? “ In our country, the lung transplantation is less than 100 cases a year, while the other organ transplant of 2800 to 3000. ” Conducted by professor wei zifeng, told reporters that the national transplant organ transplant surgery is less than 5% of the total, technical difficulty and the cognitive limitations faced by the two factors cause the lung transplant dilemma. Lung size matches (

Don't need to deliberately to consider such as heart, liver size) And lung resistance prone to rejection, surgical trauma, lung organ safety save time in only 6 to 8 hours ( The liver is 15 to 20 hours) , brain death donor lungs may loss serious & hellip; … Compared with other organ transplantation, lung transplant technology is much more difficult.

at the same time, a lot of people don't realize the lung organ can be transplanted, or understanding of lung transplant, but not from the sense of acceptance is not with the whole body went away, so a lung transplant independent contribution rate is not high also.

andyliu is discharged from hospital.