A Long Island medical team successfully performed a heart and lung transplant on a Hispanic mother from New York.
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After almost all her life fighting a disease called Eisenmenger Syndrome (which is caused by a hole in the heart that prevents the blood from transporting oxygen to the rest of the body), Lindsay Salguero-López received a new chance of life: they transplanted the two lungs and the heart.
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Since she was 6 years old, Salguero-López has lived a life with many limitations: her parents were told that she would not live beyond 10 years and, although she exceeded that expectation, she was a child prone to fainting, who lived constantly exhausted .
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Hispanic mom gets a “brand new engine”
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Seeking better medical opportunities for their daughter, her parents moved to New York where she has received constant medical attention and, now, what her doctors at Northwell call “a whole new engine.”
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The final chapter that led to the triple transplant happened on January 27, when she was shopping with her son and passed out in the car. She was taken to North Shore University Hospital as she prayed, “God, please don’t let this be the last memory my son has of me: seeing me die in the back of my car,” recalls Salguero-López.
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A few days later, on February 2, he received the news that he was on the waiting list to transplant two new lungs and a heart.
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The transplant operation lasted seven hours.
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As reported by ABC, on February 5, during a seven-hour operation, Salguero-López underwent the first lung transplant surgery on Long Island and received a new heart at the same time, all from the same donor.
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“I would say probably I was several days from dying when we did the transplant,” said Dr. Aldo Iacomo, director of lung transplant at Northwell.
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Doctors explain that only 50% or 60% of these patients survive more than five years, but they say that Salguero-López is exceptional, so they expect him to have a long life.
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