By Gwladys Fouche<\/p>\n
OSLO, June 5 (Reuters) – Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been placed on a waiting list for a lung transplant after a significant deterioration in her health that likely gave her only \u200ca year left to live without the surgery, her doctors said on Friday.<\/p>\n
The 52-year-old wife of Crown \u200cPrince Haakon, the heir to the Norwegian throne, was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis in 2018, a chronic disease that causes scarring in the lungs \u200band leads to a reduced oxygen uptake.<\/p>\n
Oslo’s University Hospital in December said the time was approaching when a transplant must be performed, and that the crown princess had not yet been placed on Norway’s list of possible recipients.<\/p>\n
AROUND ONE YEAR LEFT TO LIVE<\/p>\n
But in recent months there had been a “dramatic deterioration” in Mette-Marit’s condition, giving her only around a year left to \u200clive, Oslo University Hospital Professor Are Holm \u2060told a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n
“It is a major and demanding operation, and you have to be sick enough to need it, while at the same time healthy enough to withstand \u2060the surgery and the difficult course of treatment,” Holm told reporters.<\/p>\n
The royal palace in a statement said Mette-Marit’s condition was “life-threatening”.<\/p>\n
Crown Prince Haakon earlier this week cut short an official visit to Japan, returning home to be with his wife, while the couple’s daughter, \u200bPrincess \u200bIngrid Alexandra, flew back to Oslo from Australia where she is \u200ba student.<\/p>\n
Around 30-35 lung transplants are performed in \u200cNorway every year, and the crown princess joins the existing queue like any other patient, the hospital said. The current waiting list is short, it added.<\/p>\n
To be successful, a transplant must respect specific criteria, Holm said.<\/p>\n
“It has to be the right size, it must be the correct blood type, and we have to make sure that the recipient doesn’t have antibodies against the tissue type of the organ,” Holm said.<\/p>\n
“It’s about getting the right organ to the right person. \u200cThis means that many factors have to align to increase the \u200bchances of success.”<\/p>\n
Up to 90% of lung transplant patients in Norway survive \u200bthe first year after surgery, while around 55% \u200bare still alive after 10 years, according to the hospital’s own data.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere \u200chas praised the crown princess for being open \u200babout her condition and has \u200bsaid this could help others suffering from similar problems.<\/p>\n
The crown prince and princess are postponing the celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary, which was planned for August this year, the palace added.<\/p>\n
Mette-Marit was 25, an unmarried \u200bsingle mother and a commoner when she \u200cmet Haakon at a music festival in 1999, the beginning of an unlikely royal romance that started \u200bwith a media furore and ended up winning over the bulk of the nation.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Gwladys \u200bFouche and Terje Solsvik, editing by Sharon Singleton, William Maclean)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Gwladys Fouche OSLO, June 5 (Reuters) – Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been placed on a waiting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[85],"tags":[417,4209,51725,51723,497,157,156,42095,51726,51724],"class_list":["post-100809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oslo","tag-crown-prince-haakon","tag-crown-princess","tag-dramatic-deterioration","tag-lung-transplant","tag-mette-marit","tag-norway","tag-oslo","tag-oslo-university","tag-transplant","tag-waiting-list"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116698326138425707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}