Fatal Covid‐19 vasoplegic shock in a recipient few hours before double lung transplantation in high emergency.

SARS-Cov2 outbreak has deeply impacted French lung transplant programs by the decreased number of lung donors, the scarcity of intensive care unit (ICU) beds, and most importantly, the assumed worse prognosis of Covid-19 in recipients during perioperative period. Despite no evidence has been published to suggest that lung transplant recipients were at high risk of acquiring the virus or developing severe Covid-19, immunosuppression may worsen the prognosis of such infection in patient transplanted for end-staged lung diseases. It seems mandatory to benefit from recipient SARS Cov2 PCR results as close as possible to acceptance of donor lungs for transplantation. [Extracted from the article]