Woman survives days without lungs

toronto - Canadian doctors say they have a 32-year-old mother saved his life by removing her lungs. The woman, Melissa Benoit, suffering from cystic fibrosis and received a life-threatening pneumonia last year. The doctors of the General Hospital of Toronto feared that she had not long to live because of the rapidly spreading infection.

After consulting with close family they removed the diseased lung in April, which was a medical first, according to the doctors, reported Wednesday the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail.

The woman was kept alive by ultra-modern technology, who arrived replaced the lungs until six days later, donor lungs and transplant failed. The woman learned only later from the dangerous and where known unique surgery because they then were held because of her critical condition in a coma.