Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit placed on national lung transplant waiting list
Norway's Royal Court announced Friday that Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been added to the national lung transplant list after her pulmonary fibrosis worsened significantly over the past six months. The 52-year-old will suspend official duties until after the procedure and a subsequent rehabilitation period.
The IndependentNorway's Royal Court announced that Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been placed on the national lung transplant waiting list. The Crown Princess, 52, was diagnosed in 2018 with pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive and incurable disease that stiffens lung tissue and impairs breathing.
A lung specialist at Oslo University Hospital told Norway's public broadcaster NRK that imaging conducted over the past year shows substantially more scar tissue has formed. The specialist said the rule of thumb for listing patients for transplant is an estimated life expectancy of about one year without a transplant.
The hospital follows standard prioritization guidelines and cannot predict when a suitable organ will become available, the specialist added. Current waiting times are described as short.
The Crown Princess will pause all official duties. After hospital discharge, she faces a longer period of rehabilitation and training, during which no updates are planned.
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