Ma Moumeng, an 18-year-old girl in Xingtai, Hebei Province, was poisoned with paraquat by her brother-in-law and has undergone a lung transplant at the Eighth Medical Center of the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army in Beijing. At present, we have been discharged from the hospital and are planning further rehabilitation treatment, we are lamenting the fate of the girl at the same time, but also once again lament the role of lung transplantation, in the past paraquat poisoning is basically a dead end, even if only a few milliliters of lips, but the successful treatment of this patient, so that paraquat poisoning is no longer a terminal disease.
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There are still many friends do not know the strength of paraquat this pesticide, paraquat for agriculture can be said to be quite an excellent pesticide, but for some suicide short-sighted people that is really a nightmare, for people who accidentally ingest a small amount of paraquat is like torture, because paraquat is very toxic, even if you drink a little will unswervingly push people towards hell, a large amount of paraquat will die in a short period of time, a small amount of people will gradually exhaust all organs in the conscious state, The lungs are a very important target of toxic attack, typically gradual pulmonary fibrosis, and eventual respiratory failure suffocates to death.
Lung transplantation is the only effective way to treat the terminal stage of lung fibrosis, pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic disease of the lungs, terminal stage of lung fibrosis patients alveoli are torn by countless rope-like collagen fibers entangled and torn, these collagen fibers will also contract, resulting in alveoli can not open, the total volume of the lungs declines, the lungs become smaller and harder, and eventually form an "iron lung", the 83rd edition of the "Journey to the West" Sand Monk played by Yan Huaili is due to the disease died, terminal stage pulmonary fibrosis patients if through lung transplantation suffer from normal lungs, Can play a role in lying into the hospital standing out of the hospital life can take care of themselves.
In addition to treating pulmonary fibrosis, lung transplantation can also treat the following diseases, each of which can be life-threatening and irreversible terminal illness:
1, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is one of the lung diseases caused by smoking, mild COPD can be maintained through long-term inhalation of bronchodilator drugs to maintain stable long-term survival, severe COPD may affect the heart, resulting in respiratory failure and heart failure life-threatening, can be through lung transplantation to continue life.
2, silicon lung, silicosis is a long-term engaged in mining, quarrying, marble processing and other occupations caused by lung diseases, the lungs will have a large number of silica deposits, macrophages will swallow silica but can not be eliminated, a long time is destroyed to cause local inflammation around, silica particles released from the destroyed cells will destroy other macrophages in the same way, and eventually lead to the lungs grow huge silicosis nodules, shaped like tumors, life-threatening, Patients often lose the ability to work or even take care of themselves at a younger age, and lung transplantation can allow patients to regain the ability to live.
There are many other rare diseases, not to mention the pathogenesis one by one, as follows:
3. Asbestos lungs
4. Pulmonary hypertension
5. Terminal stage of sarcoidosis
6. Lymphangioleiomyomatous disease
7. Langerhans cell histiocytosis
8. Bronchiolitis obliterans
9. Eosinophilic granuloma
10. Adult respiratory distress syndrome, etc
Of course, lung transplantation also has many problems, such as expensive, long-term use of anti-rejection drugs after surgery, postoperative survival time can not reach a satisfactory point, so the specific need for doctors to evaluate in detail before deciding whether to do transplantation.