Pope Francis, who was just elected as the supreme leader of
the Catholic Church to live with one lung. He lost a lung due to infection as a
teenager.
However, medical experts say, the condition does not limit
the energy and action of the 76-year-old whale in the past, and will not
prevent in the future.
Dr. Zab Mosenifar, a lung specialist at Cedars Sinai Medical
Center in Los Angeles, U.S., said Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos
Aires, Argentina, who have chosen to use the name of Francis while serving as
pope looked fit, lean, and have a lung capacity were close to normal.
"Without the need to check and test it, I confidently
say that he is on the move 85 to 90 percent of the capacity of people his age
who have two lungs and mediocre," said Mosenifar. "It did not bother
me."
Pope Francis seemed to lose a lung over 50 years ago, when a
severe fungal infections or pneumonia treated with surgery because it was not
widely available antibiotics. However, single lung seemed to grow and develop
normally near capacity in one or two years, said Mosenifar, who is medical
director of the Women's Guild Lung Institute.
Human lung has excess capacity. That's 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 not only live a normal
life, but also active, said Dr. Edward Salerno, a pulmonologis at Hartford
Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. "They can work out and not feel any
abnormal body function," he said.
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