Life after a lung transplant

• May 6, 2024

Charity Tilleman , an opera student, was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension (HPI) and in 2009 and operated with a two lung transplant.

The HPI condition occurs when pulmonary arteries thicken causing the right side of the heart work extra time, which causes an increase in the size of the heart. In the case of Tilleman, his heart increased its size 3 and a half times more.

The cause that causes the HPI is unknown until now, but the conferences of TEDMED They leave testimony of the case of a 24-year-old girl who came back to life thanks to the technology and the persistence of its surgeons.