A cell therapy based on UV light originally developed to treat skin cancer led to a statistically significant reduction in the number and severity of acute rejection episodes.
A cell therapy based on UV light originally developed to treat skin cancer led to a statistically significant reduction in the number and severity of acute rejection episodes.
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Women are less likely to receive lung transplants and spend more time on waiting lists, despite showing better long-term survival rates after transplantation.
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Penn researchers compared lung transplant survival rates between hospital-based and independent donor care units.
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A study surveying patients who underwent robotic lung surgery found that many experience longer healing times than the commonly advised six-week recovery period.
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To compensate for a shortage of lung donors for COPD patients, regenerative medicine is making strides in developing lungs from pluripotent stem cells (PSCs), using interspecies animal models.
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Northwestern Medicine surgeons have successfully removed an entire lung using high-precision robot-assisted surgery on a patient with stage 3 lung cancer.
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An elementary school teacher from Kentucky survived two double-lung transplants after a series of respiratory infections destroyed her lungs and hospitalized her for over a year.
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Northwestern Medicine surgeons removed a 34-year-old’s infected lungs, created an artificial lung to keep him alive, placed breast implants inside the chest cavity to keep the heart in place, and completed a double-lung transplant within 24 hours.
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New Orleans Pelicans guard CJ McCollum has been diagnosed with a “small” pneumothorax and will be out indefinitely to undergo medical evaluation, according to the NBA.
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Northwestern Medicine’s Palos Hospital recently conducted its first endobronchial valve procedure using Pulmonx’s Zephyr EBV system.Â
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Retained and excessive secretions can lead to disorders like atelectasis but therapies like Percussionaire’s IPV therapy—recently acquired by Sentec—can improve patient outcomes.
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To help expand the lung transplant donor pool, Northwestern Medicine is now using a device called XPS, which is used for ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP).
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Patients with COPD who undergo major surgery are more likely to die in the year after surgery than similar patients without COPD, according to a new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
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A new method of donor-lung distribution is projected to decrease the number of candidate deaths who are on the waitlist for lung transplant, according to a study from the US Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients.
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Polarean Imaging’s Xenoview was approved for use with MRI for evaluation of lung ventilation in adults and children 12 and older.
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The first randomized controlled trial to compare lung volume reduction surgery and bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BVLR) via endobronchial valves for people with emphysema has found that both lead to similar improvements in lung function, breathlessness, and exercise capacity.
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Two federal grants totaling $11.5 million will fund research at UCLA aimed at making donated organs last longer and improve patient outcomes.
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Administering electrical pulses to the back of the neck of patients undergoing opioid sedation can help patients regain respiratory control following high dosage opioid use, according to new research.
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A novel treatment for opioid-induced respiratory depression that administers electrical pulses to the back of the neck helped anesthetized patients undergoing neurosurgery regain respiratory control following high dosage opioid use.
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A new robotic-assisted bronchoscopy platform at UC Davis Health was able to diagnose and remove a lung cancer mass in a single, 45-minute surgery.
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Getinge Flow Family anesthesia machines will now be available to Premier Inc’s network of 4,400 US hospitals and health systems and 225,000 other providers and organizations.
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Beyond the traditional regimen of pharmaceuticals and supplemental oxygen, COPD interventions like targeted lung denervation, lung volume reduction, endobronchial valves are emerging.Â
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7% of the nation’s more than 3,000 lung transplants between Aug. 1, 2020, and Sept. 30, 2021 were performed to treat severe, irreversible lung damage caused by COVID-19.
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New research has demonstrated it is possible to convert blood type safely in donor organs intended for transplantation — an important towards creating universal type-O organs for transplant.
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