Surgeon Shocked After Doing Double Lung Transplant on Teen Vaper: 'Evil I Haven't Faced Before'
"The damage that these vapes do to people’s lungs is irreversible," said Dr. Hassan Nemeh Tuesday
Dr. Hassan Nemeh, the surgeon who led the team that performed the first double lung transplant on a vaping patient in the United States, said that the damage to the previously healthy teen’s organs was unparalleled.
“What I saw in his lungs is like nothing I’ve seen before, and I’ve been doing lung transplants for 20 years,” Nemeh, the Surgical Director of Thoracic Organ Transplant at Henry Ford Hospital, said at a press conference Tuesday, according to the New York Times.
“This is an evil I haven’t faced before,” he added.
Nemeh continued to explain that the patient’s CT scan before the surgery showed almost no sign of his lungs because they were devoid of air, the Times reported.
Nemeh and his team of surgeons performed the surgery last month at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and staff said on Monday that they believe it was “first double lung transplant in the United States for a patient whose lungs were irreparably damaged from vaping.”
Nemeh said that the 17-year-old anonymous patient faced “imminent death” had he not received the double transplant, and is urging parents and teens to take note of the dangers that vaping pose.
“This is a preventable tragedy,” Nemeh said, per a news release from the hospital. “And we have so much respect for this family for allowing us to share their pain to prevent the same from happening to others. The damage that these vapes do to people’s lungs is irreversible. Please think of that – and tell your children to think of that.”
Detroit teenager believed to be first recipient of double lung transplant for vaping damage
The 16-year-old boy’s lungs were so damaged, he was just days away from death until a double lung transplant, doctors say.
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Surgeon Shocked After Doing Double Lung Transplant on Teen Vaper: 'Evil I Haven't Faced Before'
"The damage that these vapes do to people's lungs is irreversible," said Dr. Hassan Nemeh Tuesday
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Something tells me he’ll vape again 
