Lung transplant involves the removal of the damaged lung and replacement with a new healthy organ. To do the surgery, the doctor makes a cut in your side about 6 inches below your armpit. This cut is ...

When donor lungs arrive at Northwestern Medicine’s Canning Thoracic Institute, they can be placed in a refrigerator set at 50 degrees Fahrenheit and be kept "alive" in the fridge for up to 18 hours.

The new “lungs in a fridge" tech can keep the lungs intact for up to 18 hours, compared to about four hours when kept on it.

Dr. Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery ... performed 148 lung transplants on patients from around the world, the most in a single year since the hospital's lung transplant program began ...

After being diagnosed with terminal colorectal cancer which spread to his lungs, he's one of a dozen people who received a successful double-lung transplant through groundbreaking technology last ...

?] 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 ...

CHICAGO — Doctors at Northwestern Medicine say medical innovations helped them achieve two medical milestones last year: the largest number of lung ... transplantation and perform the surgery.

Stevens has only been in remission since February. However, as of 2021, the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation relaxed their guidance to read, "A transplant may be an option where the risk ...

Transplant surgery generally lasts 4 to 12 hours, followed by 8 to 24 hours of stabilization in an intensive care unit (ICU) in the hospital. Recovery will be in the UAB Heart and Lung Transplant ICU ...

Immediately after your lung transplant surgery, you will be admitted to the intensive care unit. You will be sedated and have a breathing tube connected to a mechanical device ventilator in place.