全球首例：吸電子煙吸到做手術，雙肺移植

Doctors in Michigan said Tuesday they had performed what they believe is the first double lung transplant on a patient whose lungs were damaged from vaping, highlighting the extreme steps medical experts are taking as they confront a nationwide rash of vaping-related illnesses.
密歇根州的醫生週二說應該是第一次爲因吸電子煙而肺部受損的患者做雙肺移植手術。全國範圍內大量出現與電子煙有關的疾病，醫學專家正在採取緊急措施。
The medical team from Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital said the patient, a 17-year-old male, underwent the roughly six-hour transplant surgery October 15.
來自底特律亨利福特醫院的醫療團隊說，這個17歲的男患者在10月15日接受了大約6小時的移植手術。
He spent a month on a life-support machine after suffering "complete lung failure" and would have faced "certain death" without the operation, according to the doctors.
醫生說他“肺功能完全衰竭”之後用了一個月的呼吸機，要是不做手術就會面臨“死亡”。
The teen's family described him as an athlete who was in perfect health before he was admitted to the hospital in early September with what appeared to be pneumonia. Within weeks, his condition had become so dire that he shot to the top of a national transplant list, where most patients spend months waiting for a donor.
這個年輕人的家人說他以前是個運動員，身體特別好，後來在9月初疑似得了肺炎住院治療。幾周內他就病危了，成了全國器官移植名單上情況最緊急的病人，名單上大多數人等待器官捐贈都等好幾個月了。
"What I saw in his lungs was nothing that I've ever seen before, and I've been doing lung transplants for 20 years," Hassan Nemeh, the hospital's surgical director of thoracic organ transplant, said at a Tuesday news conference.
該醫院胸部器官移植外科主任Hassan Nemeh在週二的新聞發佈會上說：“我做肺移植20年了，但像他這樣的肺部情況我從未見過。”
"There was an enormous amount of inflammation and scarring in addition to multiple spots of dead tissue. And the lung itself was so firm and scarred, literally we had to deliver it out of the chest," he said. "This is an evil that I haven't faced before."
他說：“除了多處壞死組織外，還有大量炎症和疤痕。肺部變硬，傷痕累累，我們必須把它移出胸腔。我從未見過如此嚴重的情況。”