US EditionBreast implants play a crucial role in innovative procedure to save life of man with severe lung damage
- Davey Bauer, a 34-year-old man with a complicated case, was kept alive using breast implants before receiving a double lung transplant. His lungs were infected and resistant to antibiotics, so doctors removed them and used extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to clear the infection from his bloodstream. The breast implants were used to support his heart during this time.
- Doctors at the Northwestern Hospital in Chicago performed the rare surgery and were able to list Bauer for a lung transplant after his infection cleared. Thankfully, a pair of healthy lungs became available within 24 hours, leading to a successful transplant. The breast implants helped to stabilize Bauer between procedures.
- Although using breast implants in a double lung transplant is unique, doctors have previously kept patients alive without lungs using artificial oxygen support. Bauer's partner, Susan Gore, expressed her awe at the fact that he survived without lungs, and Bauer himself feels extremely grateful for the second chance at life that the transplant has given him.
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He was too sick for a lung transplant. Then, doctors held his heart in place with breast implants
To keep his body alive without lungs, the team needed to create channels for blood to flow in and out of his heart. That’s where a pair of DD breast implants came in.
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Breast Implants Save life Of US Man With Severe Lung Damage
The life of a man who vaped for years was saved by breast implants that played a crucial role, according to a report in CBS News. Both the lungs of 34-year-old Davey Bauer had become infected because of his habit, requiring him to undergo a double lung transplant. Mr Bauer, who lives near Saint Louis, had started smoking a pack of cigarettes a day when he was 21, until he switched to vaping in 2014. He thought vaping was healthier alternative to…
·New Delhi, India
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