More than three-quarters of donated lungs offered for transplantation are not used, according to the UK's National Institute ...

A landmark Northwestern Medicine study published in JAMA suggests lung transplantation can significantly extend survival in select patients with advanced lung cancer. Researchers have validated a ...

A novel external artificial lung system sustained an adult man for approximately 2 days after his irreversibly diseased lungs were removed in advance of a double lung transplant. Two years after the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Surgeons at Cleveland Clinic recently completed the health system’s first successful robotic lung transplant in the United States, marking an advancement in minimally invasive organ ...

Allocation frameworks do not prohibit age but label 65-70 as higher risk and >70 as high risk, while scoring systems may favor older candidates due to greater waitlist mortality. Pediatric indications ...

More than three-quarters of donated lungs offered for transplantation are not used, according to the UK's National Institute for Health and Care ...

In findings that challenge long-standing beliefs, researchers have shown that bilateral lung transplant may extend the lives of selected patients with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

The lung survived nine days but also whipped up an immune response. It's hoped pig organs could one day ease the donor organ shortage. A heavily modified pig lung survived for 216 hours inside a brain ...

Most of Dedra’s life was spent on the sidelines. She was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis – an inherited condition that causes mucus buildup in the lungs, and often leads to infections and damage to ...

A simple blood test could one day replace invasive biopsies for detecting acute cellular rejection (ACR) after lung transplantation, a recent American Journal of Transplantation study finds. Across ...

Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit, who suffers from an incurable chronic lung disease and whose condition has recently deteriorated, has been placed on a waiting list for a lung transplant, the ...