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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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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Raising awareness of covert killer: pulmonary fibrosis
Despite claiming an estimated 40,000 lives annually - roughly the same number as breast cancer or prostate cancer - pulmonary fibrosis remains one of the least known covert killers in the country.
Aug 12, 2014
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Medical research
Stem cell therapy may help recondition lungs previously rejected for transplant
Nearly 1,650 people in the U.S. are awaiting lung transplants. Unfortunately, both domestically and abroad, the demand for donor lungs far outpaces the supply. The limited availability of donor lungs can lead to long delays ...
Jul 10, 2014
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Surgery
First patient in US implanted with Hemolung before lifesaving double lung transplant
Suffering from cystic fibrosis and rejecting the transplanted lungs he had gotten just two years ago, Jon Sacker, 33, came to UPMC from his hometown in Moore, Oklahoma, as a last resort. But when his carbon dioxide levels ...
Jul 2, 2014
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Surgery
Loyola patient receives one of the world's quickest lung transplants
A Loyola University Medical Center patient has received one of the world's quickest lung transplants. Kenneth Baumgardner received the transplant just six days after going on the waiting list. And he went home after spending ...
Apr 24, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Patients with rare lung disease face agonizing treatment dilemma
Doctors who treat patients with a severe and progressive respiratory disease called lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) can face an agonizing treatment decision.
Apr 17, 2014
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New clues found to preventing lung transplant rejection
Organ transplant patients routinely receive drugs that stop their immune systems from attacking newly implanted hearts, livers, kidneys or lungs, which the body sees as foreign.
Feb 25, 2014
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Surgery
Shedding new light on double-lung transplants
In the largest retrospective study to date using data from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database for adult double-lung transplants, Temple University School of Medicine researchers have shown that there is ...
Jan 27, 2014
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Surgery
Two sisters get lung transplants from same donor
They quibble, joke and share knowing looks, finishing each other's thoughts and making snide comments—like many sisters. But a recent heated argument was unlike any other they've had, and it ended in a most surprising way.
Jan 22, 2014
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Hand, face transplants regulated like other organs (Update)
The U.S. government is preparing to regulate the new field of hand and face transplants like it does standard organ transplants, giving more Americans who are disabled or disfigured by injury, illness or combat a chance at ...
Dec 26, 2013
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