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 ...

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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 ...

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

Referral for Transplantation The identification of poor prognostic features in patients with PAH should prompt a timely referral for assessment for lung transplantation. A major component of the ...

The study demonstrated that lung transplantation can be performed in candidates with advanced age and can provide life-extending benefits. Recipients aged 70 and above had more frequent ...

An analysis published in the Journal of Heart & Lung Transplantation showed significant inequity in lung transplant access based on these candidate characteristics and proposes a method for addressing ...

Post-COVID pulmonary fibrosis, which involves scarring of the lungs that can worsen over time and may require a lung transplant, affects some patients after infection, according to pulmonologists.

Source Reference: Tissot A, et al. "Increased delay to lung transplantation for women candidates: Gender-based disparity matters in the lung transplant trajectory" ERJ Open Res 2024; DOI: 10.1183 ...