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First DoubleLungsTransplantat Mount Sinai Health System in New York City recently against Iron Chef America winner James Kelly It was done. Kelly appeared in Season 4 of the popular food show, helping his brother's chef, Peter Kelly, win the culinary king Bobby Flay. Kelly is grateful to be part of another winning team, Mount Sinai's new lung transplant team, who helped the New York medical system reach a major milestone.
The surgery took place this March, and Kelly, a 58-year-old professional chef from Whitestone, New York, told Fox News: March 3rd of this year. If you look or talk to me, you will never know it. I don't even feel like having major surgery. Thanks to Dr. Seethamraju.
Kelly was diagnosed with emphysema and lung disease due to a condition called silicosis. According to Kelly and his doctor, Kelly's lung disease was associated with exposure at the World Trade Center when he volunteered to distribute food to the first responder at Ground Zero the day after the 9/11 attack.
View of Mount Sinai Hospital as a Fenner Patriarch Bartholomew of Greece was hospitalized in New York on November 3, 2021. Kelly is grateful to be part of another winning team, Mount Sinai's new lung transplant team, who helped the New York health system reach a major milestone. (Beturjurk / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Kelly told Fox News: After the tower collapsed. Like many, I went back to work thinking about how blessed it was to be able to help.
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In 2004, Kelly told Fox News that he had biopsied the thoracic lymph nodes and revealed at ground zero exposure to metal due to dust around him. Kelly was hospitalized multiple times forlung infectionsand on May 4, 2019, he was told that he needed a double lung transplant. At that time, Kelly searched and found Dr. Scott Shinin, MD, FACS, and Dr. Harish Seesamraju, MD.
In an interview recorded shortly before the surgery on Mount Sinai given to Fox News Kelly, Kelly waited for the phone to ring in anticipation of a lung donor. explained. The call came this past winter.
"We slept and the phone rang at 1am," Kelly recalled in an interview, "my wife said it was a phone call. } Said ready. "
Shinin, director of lung transplantation at Mount Sinai Health System, said in an interview that Kelly was" an element of inflammatory emphysema. He had an emphysema, "he told Fox News, and his lung response to things like dust particles is usually consistent with the exposure he received on 9/11.
Shinin Mount Silicosis In an interview provided to Fox News, the director of the system's lung transplant, Kelly had "on 9/11 because it is an element of silicosis, usually the inflammatory response of the lungs to dust particles and the like. Exposure. ” (iStock )
Shinin assisted in launching a new lung injury and transplant program at Mount Sinai, Kelly. He led the surgical team involved in the surgery. 72} Transplant Lung Specialist Dr Harish SeethamrajuSince the breakthrough surgery in March, the team has performed more than half a dozen double lung transplants, a hospital spokesman told Fox News.
Scheinin is one of the few surgeons in the world dedicated to lung transplants without blood transfusions, as well as more than 1,000 lung transplants. , Health experts say that faster recovery can be promoted and reduced. Post-surgery lung injury, infection, heart attack, possibility of stroke. In an interview, he said that performing the first double lung transplant on Mount Sinai and supporting the new lung transplant program at the pioneer hospital is a new era in the healthcare system.
"The whole team is ready, excited and happy to be ready," he said in an interview.
Scheinin has performed over 1000 Not just one of the few surgeons in the world dedicated to lung transplants, not just lung transplants, but without blood transfusions, health professionals promote faster recovery, It states that it can reduce the chances of lung damage, infections, heart attacks and strokes after surgery. In an interview, he said that performing the first double lung transplant on Mount Sinai and supporting the new lung transplant program at the pioneer hospital is a new era in the healthcare system. (iStock)
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Kelly is excited about his new life lease, and in an interview with Fox News he said, "Waiting for a long time." ". Kelly was so grateful for his support that he received from his family,doctors and staff
"Humility, humility, humility," Fox said. Said in a preoperative interview that the news got. Someone, the last thing they want to do before they leave is to give life to someone else – thinking of someone else ... I couldn't find a word for it. Kelly said in the interview:
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Iron Chef's As the winner continued to recover, he told Fox News that he was grateful for the past three months when he saw his son receive a second black belt, teach him how to drive, and see him. Heading to his senior prom, I'll see his son graduate from high school next week.
Thanks to the Mount Sinai teamThe chef also benefits again, and said in a preoperative interview, "It feels good to you. I think it's beautiful because I think it feels good at the end even if I don't know who will receive it, like organ donation. "
