Woman (39) gets lungs from heavy smoker and dies

Woman (39) gets lungs from heavy smoker and dies

World November 4, 2018 17:32

paris - A 39-year-old woman who suffered from cystic fibrosis died shortly after receiving the donor lungs from a heavy smoker. In June 2017, the patient becomes ill, admitted to the oncology department at Montpellier University Hospital. This is reported by the French newspaper Le Monde, which relies on an article in the medical journal Lung Cancer.

The journal Lung Cancer describes the case of the Frenchwoman, which warns about the risk of transplanting organs from smokers.

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