New Paus Only Have One Lung

AFP PHOTO / VINCENZO PINTOKardinal Argentina Jorge Bergoglio, terpilih menjadi paus ke-266, Rabu (13/3/2013). Ia memilih menggunakan gelar Paus Fransiskus.

Paus Francis, who was just elected as the supreme leader of the Catholic Church to live with one lung. He lost his one due to infection as a teenager.

However, medical experts say, the condition does not restrict the energy and action of 76-year-old pope was in the past, and will not stop him in the future.

Dr. Zab Mosenifar, pulmonary specialist at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, U.S., say, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, who have chosen to use the name Francis currently serves as the pope looked fitter, slimmer, and have a lung capacity which is close to normal.

"Without the need to check and test it, I can confidently say that he move 85 to 90 percent of capacity peers who have two lungs and mediocre," said Mosenifar. "It does not bother me."

Francis Pope apparently lost one his more than 50 years ago, when a severe fungal infections or pneumonia treated with surgery because it was not widely available antibiotics. However, it seems lung singular approach the capacity to grow and develop normally in one or two years, said Mosenifar, who is medical director of the Women's Guild Lung Institute.

Human lung has excess capacity. That is the reason why doctors typically use only one lung during lung transplantation. Mosenifar said, there are 30,000 to 40,000 transplant patients who live in the U.S. and live with only one lung, as well as thousands of other pulmonary lost due to disease or trauma.

Many patients with a single lung undergo not only a normal life, but also active, said Dr. Edward Salerno, a pulmonologis at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. "They can exercise and do not feel any dysfunction," he said.

Source : kompas.com /cnbc.com

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