He is one of five people who have undergone this procedure at Penn Medicine—the center of the world's most advanced knowledge ...

The transplant surgery that Wells requires typically lasts between 8 and 10 hours. A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help Wells with ongoing medical expenses. Report a correction or typo ...

Cornelia Tischmacher's road to survival led from Germany to the United States, where she received a double-lung transplant at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago the day after Christmas 2024.

The transplant surgery involves putting the patient on full heart and lung bypass, gently removing both cancer-ridden lungs long with the lymph nodes, then washing the airways and the chest cavity ...

A German woman has a new lease on life after a novel approach to double-lung transplantation rid her of a deadly cancer. Cornelia Tischmacher, an art dealer and historian from Berlin, was ...

Heller said she received a double lung transplant on Aug. 12, 2015, about a month before her 21st birthday. Her donor was a 17-year-old boy named Jordan, who had died in a car accident.

When receiving a lung transplant, one of the most important complications to look out for is chronic lung allograft dysfunction, known as CLAD. Preventing this complication for those who receive a ...

UCSF Health’s Lung Transplant program has been awarded INTERLINK’s 2025 Chairman’s Award for Transplant Excellence as the top-performing lung transplant program in the nation. The UCSF program, which ...

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.

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.

Thoracic surgery fellows Dr. Firas Darawshi, from left, Dr. Heechul Yang, thoracic surgeon Dr. Chitaru Kurihara, and scrub nurse Mireya Zarco perform a lung transplant on patient Brent Kenley at ...

Lung transplant patient Tadd Crosslin, left, speaks with Dr. Ankit Bharatat, chief of thoracic surgery and director of the Canning Thoracic Institute, following a news conference at Northwestern ...