Ground breaking double lung transplant operation performed
LONDON: A Manchester hospital has carried out a double lung transplant on a cystic fibrosis patient whose life was threatened by a fungal infection.Dubliner Becky Jones, 20, was airlifted to Wythenshawe Hospital in late May for the operation, after spending more than a year on a waiting list.
"I'm a different person, I can breathe, I can do anything I want," she said.
Professor David Denning said, "If she didn't have a transplant she wouldn't be with us in two year's time."
The hospital said she was the first patient to have a lung transplant with multi-resistant Aspergillus and multiple fungal balls in her own lungs.
Aspergillosis affects 150,000 people a year.
