The lungs that Dr. Ankit Bharat took out of Tadd Crosslin, a 49-year-old father of twins, were marred with billions of cancer cells. They were “perhaps the most diseased that we’ve ever seen,” said ...

Lung transplant recipients are highly susceptible to infection, the researchers noted, and P. aeruginosa is a leading cause ...

The medical world is celebrating two innovative technologies Northwestern Medicine is using to help give patients a new ...

The operation involved four surgical teams and specialists in nephrology, ophthalmology, and critical care to coordinate ...

More than 2,500 patients are currently waiting for that lifesaving transplant in Michigan. More than 100,000 are waiting ...

Early acute rejection following lung transplantation can be safely detected and graded by transbronchial biopsy via bronchoscopy.

An autoimmune disease crippled his lungs. Hooked up to a machine that oxygenated his blood for him, for 18 months the boy ...

A large team of surgeons and organ transplant researchers affiliated with multiple institutions across the U.S. has found an association between lung transplant patients who become infected with the ...

Last year, surgeons performed 148 lung transplants on patients from around the world, the most in a single year since the hospital's lung transplant program began 10 years ago.

Researchers reported that a lung MRI technique that uses inhaled gas can identify early patchy lung defects in patients with ...

With 103 lung transplants and one heart-lung transplant in 2024, MHH is the leader in the Eurotransplant network. The lung transplant team relies on minimally invasive procedures and innovative ...

?] Pulmonary arterial hypertension happens when the arteries that carry blood from your heart to your lungs get narrow or blocked. This makes the blood pressure inside these arteries go up, and ...