Preventing Complications Post Lung Transplant
Researchers conducted a study evaluating the treatments tacrolimus versus cyclosporine after lung transplantation.
Researchers conducted a study evaluating the treatments tacrolimus versus cyclosporine after lung transplantation.
Researchers conducted a study evaluating the treatments tacrolimus versus cyclosporine after lung transplantation.
Read MoreMedicaid 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.
Read MoreA university health system’s lung transplant unit was named the top-performing program in the nation by Interlink.
Read MoreAdenotonsillectomy was tied to a 32% reduction in medical visits and a 48% reduction in prescription use among children with mild sleep-disordered breathing.
Read MoreFor 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.
Read MoreNew technologies widen the donor pool and shorten the wait time for patients, including those with advanced-stage cancers.
Read MoreAnatomic 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.
Read MoreLung volume reduction surgery may provide better survival rates and fewer complications compared to endobronchial valve placement in severe emphysema patients.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreWomen are less likely to receive lung transplants and spend more time on waiting lists, despite showing better long-term survival rates after transplantation.
Read MorePenn researchers compared lung transplant survival rates between hospital-based and independent donor care units.
Read MoreA study surveying patients who underwent robotic lung surgery found that many experience longer healing times than the commonly advised six-week recovery period.
Read MoreTo 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.
Read MoreNorthwestern Medicine surgeons have successfully removed an entire lung using high-precision robot-assisted surgery on a patient with stage 3 lung cancer.
Read MoreAn 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.
Read MoreNorthwestern 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.
Read MoreNew 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.
Read MoreNorthwestern Medicine’s Palos Hospital recently conducted its first endobronchial valve procedure using Pulmonx’s Zephyr EBV system.
Read MoreRetained and excessive secretions can lead to disorders like atelectasis but therapies like Percussionaire’s IPV therapy—recently acquired by Sentec—can improve patient outcomes.
Read MoreTo 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).
Read MorePatients 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MorePolarean Imaging’s Xenoview was approved for use with MRI for evaluation of lung ventilation in adults and children 12 and older.
Read MoreThe 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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