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In 2005, Randy Moritz was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease. Fifteen years later, doctors told him he needed a transplant and removed both his kidneys. His wife, Karen, was a match and the surgery was booked for March 2020... But then COVID-19 hit.
This bi-lateral lung transplant recipient is a 65 year-old male patient who received his lung transplant due to end-stage lung disease secondary to non-CF bronchiectasis. The donor and recipient CMV serostatus is D+/R+. The patient’s initial peri-operative course was complicated by difficult explant, primary graft dysfunction, respiratory failure requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation, renal insufficiency and recurrent infectious concerns, including pseudomonas and stenotrophomonas pneumonias.