Norway crown princess awaits lung transplant

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 a year left to live without the surgery, her doctors said on Friday.The 52-year-old wife of Crown Prince Haakon, the ‌heir to the Norwegian throne, was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis in 2018, a chronic disease that causes scarring in the lungs and leads to a reduced oxygen uptake.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.