While chemotherapy remains a cornerstone of lung cancer treatment, it often weakens the immune system it relies on for ...

Doctors at Baylor College of Medicine have confirmed that the use of the portable Organ Care System (OCS), or "breathing lung ...

About a third of lung transplant patients with cystic fibrosis receive elexacaftor-tezacaftor-ivacaftor; use is higher among ...

Despite recommendations on early referral for lung transplantation in cases of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), there ...

In the transplantation world, technology has played a major role in advancing the way donor organs are transported and preserved.One advancement in lung transplant preservation that recently ...

Milestone in the field of lung transplantation: Improvement in rejection and infection rate thanks to extracorporeal photopheresis Findings could significantly change the standard procedure for ...

In a first, surgeons at Northwestern Medicine performed double lung transplants in patients with stage 4 lung cancer. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another ...

Patient Referral and Selection for Lung Transplantation . International Guidelines for the Selection of Lung Transplant Candidates have been endorsed by the International Society for Heart and ...

Data from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) indicates that the proportion of recipients aged 66 and above has risen to 19% by 2017. In the United States, the ...

After lung transplantation, infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa independently predicted antibody-mediated rejection (AMR), researchers found.. Individuals found to carry the bacteria after ...

In the past five years, the number of lung transplantations carried out has increased by about 20 percent. In the end stage of various lung diseases, transplantation is the last remaining option ...

Loor is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. Loor is fluent in Spanish. He ...