A lung transplant was the only option, she was starting to develop multi-organ failure from the result of the permanent damage that she had.

Ankit Bharat

Yesterday she smiled and told me this one sentence. She said,' Doc, thank Ankit Bharat for not giving up on me,' if she didn't get the transplant, she would not be alive.

Normally we try to wake every patient up before we offer them lung transplant. We want to make sure that the patient knows, in her situation, we tried to do the same thing, but her lungs were so badly injured we just could not wake her up.

They're quite ecstatic, she's able to FaceTime with her family. She's able to talk to her significant others.

We are one of the first health systems to successfully perform a lung transplant on a patient recovering from COVID-19, we want other transplant centers to know that while the transplant procedure in these patients is quite technically challenging, it can be done safely, and it offers the terminally ill COVID-19 patients another option for survival.