Local news outlets reported that hospital officials released a statement, saying that the patient didn’t undergo a C.T. scan before his death.
Unfortunately, the 52-year-old man was declared brain dead, and his lungs were donated shortly after that. Initial oxygenation index tests were okay, but when we looked at the organs, we realized we wouldn’t be able to use them.
However, this man’s Iungs were so far gone that the doctors had no hope of using them in a transplant. Because this is what can happen to the human body from ‘a very bad habit’, it is important to quit it as early as possible. As we all know by now, Iungs are supposed to be pink in color.
The surgeons believe that the 52-year-old man would have lived much, much longer if they had given up cigarettes.
The man, who was not identified, turned his Iungs black because of the decades of tobacco smoke they inhaled into their body. Cigarette after cigarette clogged up their Iungs and turned the healthy lung tissue into a cancerous mess. Read full story here…