They lived with organs on the wrong side of their bodies until their lungs wore out. Surgeons were able to successfully transplant normal lungs into their bodies.
Fifty-year-old psychologist Dennis Deer’s lungs were failing, scarred by a rare inflammatory condition called polymyositis. Despite carrying supplemental oxygen, the Cook County Commissioner for the 2nd district in Illinois was finding it harder and harder to perform his job. “It was terrible. I would walk 10 steps and I was gasping for air,” Deer said in a news conference Monday. Deer was added to the lung transplant list, but he faced an additional hurdle.
You know, you can still hear the bird’s singing — it sings a beautiful song, but the song is still very sad,” she said at the news conference. Complicated surgery Like Deer, Vega was put on the lung transplant waiting list, and like Deer, needed individualized treatment. Performing an organ transplant on patients with situs inversus is an extraordinary surgical challenge, Bharat said.
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