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Teen Receives Double Lung Transplant After Vaping Injuries

Leah Seyoum

   A 17-year-old male in Michigan is said to be the first person in the
   United States to receive a bilateral lung transplant for vaping-related
   injuries.

   The boy's severe injuries included extreme lung inflammation, scarring
   and dead tissue, which alarmed medical professionals -- especially
   given the patient's age.

   "What I saw in his lungs is nothing that I've ever seen before, and
   I've been doing lung transplants for 20 years," said Hassan Nemeh,
   M.D., surgical director of the Thoracic Organ Transplant System at
   Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

   First admitted to Ascension St. John Hospital in Detroit in September,
   the then-16-year-old showed symptoms consistent with pneumonia. As his
   condition deteriorated rapidly, however, he was transferred to
   Children's Hospital of Michigan after less than a week and placed on
   life support.

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