Category: Cardiopulmonary & Thoracic

Cardiopulmonary & Thoracic

Targeted Radiation Extends Survival for SCLC With Brain Tumors

Small cell lung cancer patients receiving focused treatment lived a median of 17 months compared to nine months with whole brain radiation.

Cardiopulmonary & Thoracic

Two Target Proteins ID’d to Treat Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Targeting key cellular proteins may provide new opportunities to diagnose, prevent, and treat pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Cardiopulmonary & Thoracic

Social, Financial Factors Tied to VTE Anticoagulant Use

Physicians are less likely to prescribe recommended oral anticoagulants to patients facing housing insecurity or financial barriers, according to a Michigan Medicine study.

Pulmonary Hypertension

Positive Data for Inhaled Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Treatment

Once-daily treprostinil palmitil inhalation powder improved exercise capacity and reduced mortality risk for pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Pulmonary Embolism

Ai Matches Radiologists in Detecting Pulmonary Embolism

A study of more than 32,000 CTPA scans found that artificial intelligence and physicians agreed on pulmonary embolism results nearly 98% of the time, though human review caught cases the software missed.

Thoracic Surgery

Retransplanted Lungs Used in CF Quadruple Organ Transplant

Surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital successfully transplanted a second set of lungs, a liver, and a kidney into a patient with cystic fibrosis and chronic organ rejection.

Lung Cancer

Obesity May Drive Lung Cancer by Suppressing Immune System

New research suggests that excess abdominal fat impairs the lung's immune defenses, allowing non-small cell lung cancer to develop more rapidly.