Florida man in lung op.
NZPA New York A gardener from Florida whose lungs were damaged by the herbicide Paraquat was given the lungs of a dead teenager yesterday. Scott Wilson, aged 25, was in a critical but stable condition after the operation at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, according to a hospital spokesman. - He received the lungs of Thomas Riso, aged 19, of New York, who had been in a coma since a car accident that killed five others.
Riso’s parents, Louis and Ann Riso, decided to donate their son’s lungs after he was declared brain dead at the week-end.
The -longest a lung-trans-plant patient has lived is about a year. “Without the transplant, Wilson’s chance of survival was zero,” said Dr, Frank Veith. who headed the transplant team.
“With the transplant, Wilson’s chance of survival is small,” he said.
Wilson was poisoned by Paraquat on September 5 when he ingested some of the week killer after a bottle of it apparently exploded in his hands.
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