Some people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may get a lung transplant as a way to help symptoms and be able to breathe more easily. The surgery doesn’t cure COPD but can help ...

Results from a phase 3 clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine, today (June 2nd) show that patients ...

Undergoing lung transplant surgery is a highly complex and life-changing experience — affecting a patient's quality of life. That's what drives Matthew Morrell, MD, a pulmonologist and medical ...

Her surgery is one of the latest examples of what could eventually ... Tischmacher was the first patient from Germany to receive a lung transplant at Northwestern Medicine, though other patients have ...

Deron Wells has been fighting for months to get a double-lung transplant and had to battle his health insurance company in a ...

Ankit Bharat, MD, can still remember Cornelia Tischmacher stopping their first telehealth conversation every few words to ...

Hospital Announces First Successful Transplant of Genetically ... prepared for the seven-hour surgery for six months. They also performed three single robotic lung transplants in the five weeks ...

Within one week, two female patients were given a new lease on life thanks to lung donations from two men who had been ...

The “tough hours” of lung transplant surgery used to inspire fewer surgeons to go into the field, causing a “significant shortage” of thoracic surgeons, according to Bharat. But more ...

Mark Print was one of the very few under-50s hit by an incurable lung condition called Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) ...