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FDA approves lung preservation machine (Update)
Federal health regulators have approved a novel device that can preserve donated lungs outside the body for possible transplantation into critically ill patients.
Aug 12, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Patients awaiting lung transplant commonly suffer depression-related symptoms
Researchers from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, have found patients awaiting lung transplant often suffer from stress, anxiety, or depressive symptoms, and these symptoms are not isolated to patients with pre-existing ...
Oct 19, 2015
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Surgery
Researchers develop new model for prioritizing lung transplant candidates
A team from Cleveland Clinic has developed a new model for prioritizing patients waiting for a lung transplant, aimed at improving outcomes and reducing deaths among those in need of donor lungs. The new method offers an ...
Sep 29, 2023
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Cardiology
Hearts from donors who used illicit drugs or overdosed safe for transplant, cuts wait time
Survival rates after a heart transplant are unaffected if the organ donor had used illicit drugs or died due to an overdose, a fact that is increasing the availability of hearts due to the rise in drug overdose deaths in ...
Jul 28, 2021
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Cardiology
Lung transplant drug enters human testing in culmination of decades of work
In the culmination of decades of research at the University of Virginia Health System, doctors have begun human testing of a drug they hope will one day save many lives among lung transplant recipients.
Mar 26, 2018
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Cardiology
Prognostic biomarkers ID'd in pulmonary hypertension
(HealthDay)—Biomarkers have been identified for the risk of lung transplantation and death in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), according to a study published online Oct. 26 in the Annals of the American ...
Nov 18, 2015
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Surgery
Link found between donor, infection in heart, lung transplant recipients
The way in which heart and lung transplant recipients acquired a specific species of bacteria, Mycoplasma hominis, had been previously undefined, and the bacterium was difficult to test. Originally, this bacterium was considered ...
May 16, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Donor smoking and recipient obesity tied to higher rates of death and lung injury after lung transplantation
(Medical Xpress)—A multi-institution study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has identified several important risk factors, including a donor's smoking history and recipient ...
Mar 7, 2013
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Cardiology
ISHLT issues updated candidacy criteria for heart transplantation
To determine patient eligibility for heart transplant, the International Society for Heart Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) maintains a list of criteria, first issued in 2006, that acts as a guideline for physicians. A major ...
Jan 7, 2016
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Cardiology
Wealthiest—not sickest—patients may have edge in organ transplants
Registering with more than one organ transplant center appears to give an edge to wealthy patients over those with the most medical need, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions ...
Nov 9, 2015
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