A woman (39) takes the lungs of a fat smoker and dies abroad

The Journal Lung Cancer describes the case of a French woman who had warned against the risk of organ transplantation of smokers

The patient had cystic fibrosis since his childhood. When his condition deteriorated rapidly, his doctors decided to proceed to a lung transplant in November 2015.

The lungs came from a 57-year-old woman who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for thirty years. This is demonstrated by a study conducted by doctors at the University Hospital of Montpellier. According to the doctors, the lungs of the woman who smoked at the chain showed no abnormality at the time when she was in a state of brain death.

In June 2017, the woman, two years after the lung transplant, became ill. She is admitted to the hospital of Montpellier. Two months later, she died of lung cancer

Research has shown that cancer was probably due to smoking. The first signs of lung cancer would have been visible on lung scanners from the year following the transplant. According to the researchers, the fact that the cancer developed so soon after the transplant indicates that the cancer must already be present during the lifetime of the donor.

Researchers plead in the article Lung Cancer for better precautions when organ transplants from donors who smoke, even if they just stopped To smoke.