Preventing Complications Post Lung Transplant
Researchers conducted a study evaluating the treatments tacrolimus versus cyclosporine after lung transplantation.
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Preventing Complications Post Lung Transplant
Researchers conducted a study evaluating the treatments tacrolimus versus cyclosporine after lung transplantation.
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Medicaid Expansion Improved Timely Lung Cancer Treatment, Access to High-Volume Hospitals
Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act was associated with an increase in lung cancer surgeries performed at high-volume hospitals, which are associated with decreased rates of postoperative complications and in-hospital mortality rates.
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Who Is the Top Lung Transplant Program in the US?
A university health system’s lung transplant unit was named the top-performing program in the nation by Interlink.
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Adenotonsillectomy Improved Pediatric Sleep-disordered Breathing
Adenotonsillectomy was tied to a 32% reduction in medical visits and a 48% reduction in prescription use among children with mild sleep-disordered breathing.
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Vanderbilt Lung Transplant Establishes New Record
For the second calendar year in a row, Vanderbilt Lung Transplant has the busiest program in the Southeast and leads the nation in innovation in organ preservation and regeneration.
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‘Lungs in a Fridge’ Approach Helps Northwestern Medicine Perform Record Lung Transplants
New technologies widen the donor pool and shorten the wait time for patients, including those with advanced-stage cancers.
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Anatomic Lung Resections Outperform Wedge Resection for Early Lung Cancer Survival
Anatomic lung resection, such as lobectomy and segmentectomy, offered better long-term survival than wedge resection for patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer.
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Lung Volume Reduction Surgery May Improve Survival in Advanced Emphysema
Lung volume reduction surgery may provide better survival rates and fewer complications compared to endobronchial valve placement in severe emphysema patients.
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Therapy Originally Developed for Skin Cancer Helps Prevent Lung Transplant Rejection
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 Face Barriers to Receiving Lung Transplants
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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Donor Care Location Impacts Lung Transplant Recipient Survival
Penn researchers compared lung transplant survival rates between hospital-based and independent donor care units.
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Patients May Receive Unrealistic Recovery Timelines for Robotic Lung Surgery
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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The Quest to Grow Transplant Lungs via Animal Stem Cells
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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Surgeons Remove Entire Lung Using Robot-assisted Surgery
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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School Teacher Survives Two Double-Lung Transplants in Three Days
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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Surgeons Used Breast Implants During Double-Lung Transplant
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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NBA’s CJ McCollum Sidelined with Pneumothorax
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 Completes First Endobronchial Valve Procedure
Northwestern Medicine’s Palos Hospital recently conducted its first endobronchial valve procedure using Pulmonx’s Zephyr EBV system.
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IPV Therapy: An Essential Solution for Secretion Clearance and Atelectasis
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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Ex vivo Lung Perfusion Device Facilitates Lung Transplantation
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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Greater Mortality for COPD Patients After Major Surgery
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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New Method of Donor-Lung Distribution Expected to Decrease Deaths Among Those on Transplant Waiting List
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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FDA Approves Xenoview for use with MRI
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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Emphysema: Endobronchial Valves as Effective as Lung Volume Reduction Surgery
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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