Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway has undergone a successful lung transplant at Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet in Oslo. The Crown Princess has been living with pulmonary fibrosis for several years, and just a few weeks ago, doctors said she was in urgent need of a transplant, with a life expectancy of less than a year without one.
Norway’s Royal Court announced that the lung transplant operation had taken place once it had been completed. In a short statement, the court said the procedure had taken place at Rikshospitalet in Oslo. Arnt Fiane, Head of the Thoracic Surgery Unit at the hospital, said: “The lung transplant has so far been successful.”
In accordance with standard practice for all recent transplant recipients, the Crown Princess will remain admitted to Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet for several weeks to come. This is a routine procedure to adjust medication, manage any potential complications, and undertake rehabilitation, according to Are Holm, Professor of Medicine at the University of Oslo and Senior Consultant and respiratory specialist at Oslo University Hospital.
I'm so happy to hear that the operation went well and was successful. The hard part comes now, with the recovery and rehabilitation. My prayers and best wishes are with MM. I look forward to the day many months from now, when we may see her back in action and living a full life again.
ReplyDeleteI also carry in my prayers CP Haakon, their children, and all the royal family, friends and medical staff who are supporting her.
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@15:16 : I'd suggest you look up lifelong immunosuppression because of the ongoing risk of organ rejection. Immunosuppression means the immune system is compromised, "back in action" is wishful thinking without a properly functioning immune system. Maybe it is more appropriate to wish her good recovery without organ rejection and infections of any kind.
DeletePrayers indeed!! It must have been such a stressful time for her! And her son's trial was the day before her surgery, but all will be well.
DeleteAbsolutely, Anon 9 13. Well said
Delete@Anon 17:21 I have helped and supported 2 friends through the long process of organ transplant receipt, from initial diagnosis to full function post operation, so I know all about immunosuppression without having to read about it. In one case the person was functioning near normally 7 months after the operation without the body rejecting the organ. The other was 11 months. The body can reject an organ at any time and infections are forever prone, but there might be a period, however long or short, when the recipient heals and is able to function near normally after receiving an organ while still taking watchful precautions, as is the current situation with my two friends, and that is what I wished for MM ("...after many months."). You seem to be more sceptical about her future, and that is your business.
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@Anon 9:13: I was specifically referring to your "living a full life" and "back to action". I am not at all sceptical about "living a good life" and "back to selected actions"! But every infection is a risk, this is valid not only for the first time, but continually. So even if no organ rejection takes place, she will have to choose very carefully if and where to mingle with other people. This is for me not a sceptical, just a realistic view about one's (hopefully good, but not full like before) life after an organ transplantation.
DeleteI hope she does very well and that her body accepts the new organ well and she can regain much of her energy and life. It is miraculous that humans worked out how to do this, and a massive undertaking for the patient.
ReplyDeleteGetting through this life saving surgery is great news and wishing her many healthy years ahead
ReplyDeleteNot very long on the waiting list. Feel sorry for all those people who have to wait to long.
ReplyDeleteI read that she had already been on a list for quite some time. And when a compatible match became available she had the transplant. Whether that’s the truth?
DeleteIts different in every country. Her doctors said they is no waiting list in Norway, there are no donors than recipients, the patient just has to be ready for the call.
DeleteShe's probably been on the waiting list for years already since she started treatment, but didn't receive the required medical clearance for the transplant until recently, because tests for transplants sometimes take years to complete. You don't lose your place on the list while the tests are being done. That's how it is for most organ transplants, not just lung. After you receive medical clearance, the degree of severity could move you up the list, or if a donor specifically directs for you to be their recipient the process is accelerated.
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Not a nice comment. As stated in a previous post, this is generally a very short list
DeleteThey are prioritised on urgency. This was made very clear. And yes a very hard and nervous wait for all on the list.
DeleteThey have been saying for quite awhile she would need a transplant, so we don’t know exactly when, and what luck to get a good match. Many factors go into the selection process. Hope it has a good ending
DeleteThe Norwegian sanitary system relies on a series of strict rules re: lung transpant, which becomes urgent when the patient's life expectancy
DeleteIs less than one year.
This , unfortunately, was the case of the Princess.
The match became available recently and she underwent the operation.
There is no preference in all that, just an unfortunate, fast worsening of her health conditions.
The waiting list is short because of Scanditransplant. Norway, Sweden, Danmark, Finland, Iceland and Estonia collaborate and send organs between them.
DeleteSwedish newspaper reported MM's lunges to be swedish.
The waiting list in Norway right now is very short. When it comes to an organ transplant they don't stand in a queue. There are several things that has to be right. A lung has to be the right size. MM as a tall person can't get a lung from a petite person. The blood type had to be right and so has also the tissue type. So the last person who was put on the list can be the first one who get the organ. There are people being interviewed who got a lung after a few days, some a few months and some a year later. There are even been some who got a lung even before they were put on the list. So spreading theories about MM fast operation is spread with hate and nastiness. There are no way you can go before another person during yhese procedure so say every doctor working in this field. So please can we stop yhe bs.
DeleteMay GOD bless Thee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteLykke til og god bedring!!!
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Prayers for a successful and rapid recovery for M-M.
ReplyDeleteJanet
God bless and heal this beautiful Norwegian princess. - Virginia Dogwood
ReplyDeleteMany thanks to the kind soul who donated her/his organ/s and my deepest condolenscense to their family.
ReplyDeletePrayers for the Crown Princess.
ReplyDeleteYou are in my prayers, Princess Mette- Marit.
ReplyDeleteWishing her a successful healing process.
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It is nice to know everything went well with the Transplant. Hope she will do fine in the future.
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I read all the comments before commenting. Thank you to those who illuminated to us who didn’t know about how organ transplants work in Norway. With that said, I wish the Princess all the best in her recovery and rehabilitation. May her second chance at life be a long one.
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Thank you , @T , for your most reasonable comment.
DeleteI actually wonder how some readers can be so sure to know how the Norwegian health system works re: lung translants without even bothering to gather some correct information first.
Sincerely ,
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