In 1954, the world's first successful organ transplant took place at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in the form of a kidney donated from one twin to the other. At the time, a group of doctors and scientists had correctly theorized ...
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Two years ago, the United Network for Organ Sharing implemented new allocation guidelines for lung transplants that prioritize medical urgency. Now new research, published at the 2025 ATS International Conference and in the ...
May 18, 2025
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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 lung transplant is of the ...
Apr 22, 2025
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Researchers from the Vienna Lung Transplant Program of MedUni Vienna and University Hospital Vienna have published the first prospective, randomized and controlled study on the use of extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) in ...
Jan 9, 2025
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It may now be time to ban artificial stone—a firm favorite for kitchen worktops in the UK— to ward off the incurable lung disease caused by its manufacturing and fitting, say a team of doctors in the journal Thorax after ...
Aug 6, 2024
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The new algorithm was supposed to help distribute lungs more fairly to people who desperately needed life-saving transplants.
Jul 1, 2024
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A new study by Penn researchers examined, for the first time, the differences in lung transplant graft outcomes from organs recovered from the two types of deceased organ donor care facilities operating in the United States. ...
Jun 25, 2024
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Chicago resident Arthur "Art" Gillespie fell ill in early March 2020 with COVID, after he and his father went to visit an uncle in a nursing facility.
May 13, 2024
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Radio ads with an emotional appeal—featuring personal stories of either a happy organ transplant recipient or a sad patient languishing on the waiting list—increase non-donor listeners' support for organ donation and may ...
Apr 17, 2024
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Re-perfusing the lungs of an organ donor with a technique called normothermic regional perfusion (TA-NRP) after the heart has irreversibly stopped beating could potentially increase the number of patients receiving lung transplants, ...
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