First Covid-19 patient lung transplant performed at UKC Ljubljana

Ljubljana, 22 December - Doctors at the UKC Ljubljana hospital have successfully conducted a lung transplant on a Covid-19 patient in what Tomaž Štupnik, the head of the hospital's ward for thoracic surgery, said was the first lung transplant on a Covid-19 patient in Slovenia while only about ten such procedures have been conducted in the world.