Robot at the New York University School of
Medicine, asked a 57-year-old woman named Cheryl Mehrkar, and put in another
lung.
Specialist in heart and lung surgery in
this hospital, Dr. Stephanie H. Chang, explained that the date of October 22,
2024 is when she led this robot in this process.
The doctor explained that he made a small
incision between Cheryl's ribs, and the robot removed the damaged lung and
replaced it with a healthy one. This process took about seven hours.
Cheryl started having respiratory problems
15 years after she started teaching karate. In 2010, doctors told him that he
has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease known as COPD (Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease).
In 2022, when Cheryl contracted Covid-19,
her condition worsened to the point where she needed a ventilator. He was
immediately put on the list of those in need of an organ transplant.
Cheryl says that her robotic surgery has
allowed her to recover quickly and is ready to return to her normal life,
although she won't be doing as much exercise as before.
He hopes to return to the work he once
loved as a volunteer at the Firefighters Association.
