When someone with advanced lung disease — like emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) — has tried all other treatment options, a lung transplant may be their ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lung transplant-listed patients with BPD were younger and more were on mechanical ventilation vs. those with ...

The organ transplantation field has seen many advancements over the years, with lung transplant rates showing an upward trend. Consider the statistics. Since 2011, there has been a 148.3% increase in ...

VIENNA — Survival rates at 1 and 5 years for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) who receive bilateral lung and heart-lung transplants are similar, said researchers presenting at the ...

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

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have identified a potential way to improve the survival rate of lung transplant patients. That has doctors and researchers eager to find ways to ...

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 ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Propensity score-matched older and younger transplant ...

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 ...

More than 50% of lung-transplant recipients experience a rejection of their new lung within five years of receiving it, yet the reason why this is such a prevalent complication has remained a medical ...

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When 34-year-old Davey Bauer’s lungs stopped working, doctors turned to an unusual tool to help keep him alive: large breast implants. Experts say it was an innovative solution to give Bauer’s body ...