Surgeons and teams with Vanderbilt Lung Transplant performed 99 lung transplants in 2024, the most ever in one year. Two of the procedures involved combined organ transplants. For the second calendar ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The medical world is celebrating two innovative technologies Northwestern Medicine is using to help give patients a new chance at life, called "lungs in the fridge" and "lungs in a ...

Animation illustrating the steps involved in the world's first fully robotic double lung transplant surgery that took place at NYU Langone Health on Oct. 22, 2024 in New York, NY. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

Lung transplantation has evolved over 60 years from an experimental to an accepted standard treatment for life-threatening lung disease. Suitable recipients can expect improved survival and quality of ...

A team of four surgeons in the Duke Lung Transplant Program successfully performed a robotic bilateral lung transplant June 30, making Duke the first medical institution in the Southeast and the ...

New research from UCLA Health reveals that women continue to face barriers in accessing lung transplants compared to men, despite recent national policy changes aimed at making organ distribution more ...

Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) is a treatment for end-stage lung disease caused by emphysema. Emphysema is a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that causes shortness of breath ...

Radio ads with an emotional appeal—featuring personal stories of either a happy organ transplant recipient or a sad patient languishing on the waiting list—increase non-donor listeners' support for ...