Surgery
Survivor: Woman with COVID-19 gives birth, gets new lungs
A suburban Detroit woman infected with COVID-19 gave birth then underwent a double lung transplant just weeks later to save her life, doctors said Wednesday.
Mar 18, 2021
0
2
Page 7 - News tagged with lung transplants
Health
Giving back: once a lung transplant recipient, now a surgical nurse
Nurses are known for being kind, caring and sympathetic, but Brianna Fogelman brings an uncommon empathy to her nursing job at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.
Dec 30, 2020
0
3
Surgery
Finding a personalized approach to treating chronic rejection after lung transplantation
Two new papers examine the processes of lung scarring and chronic rejection of the organ after transplantation, and potential therapies to stop the graft, or transplanted organ and its tissue, from failing.
Dec 17, 2020
0
3
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19 can damage lungs so badly that 'only hope' is transplant
Case studies and autopsy results are confirming that, in some cases, COVID-19 can cause such severe lung damage that patients require a lung transplant to survive.
Dec 1, 2020
0
67
Medications
Antifungal meds cut risk for death after lung transplant
(HealthDay)—Preventive antifungal medications cut the risk for death following a lung transplant by more than half, according to a study published online Sept. 23 in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
Oct 26, 2020
0
0
Health
Expect more virtual house calls from your doctor, thanks to telehealth revolution
If you have serious lung disease, getting a lung transplant can add years to your life. It also adds a list of must-do tasks: getting regular tests, taking medication and visiting the doctor for checkups, all to keep the ...
Oct 7, 2020
0
3
Surgery
Study finds lung transplant patients not given antifungal preventive drugs have higher risk of death
Antifungal preventive medications reduce mortality risk by half in the first year following lung transplantation, according to Mayo Clinic research involving 667 patients who received lung transplants from 2005 to 2018.
Sep 23, 2020
0
2
Inflammatory disorders
New imaging agent spotlights inflammation
Many of the most common diseases—cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular and lung disease, and even COVID-19—have been linked to chronic or excessive inflammation. Blood tests can indicate that some part of a person's body is ...
Sep 14, 2020
0
3
Surgery
COVID patient didn't recognize body after double transplant
A Chicago woman who last month became the nation's first COVID-19 patient to undergo a double lung transplant said Thursday that she woke up days later, unaware about the surgery and unable to "recognize my body."
Jul 31, 2020
0
6
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Double lung transplants save lives of sickest COVID patients
(HealthDay)—Two coronavirus patients who became so sick that double lung transplants were their only chance for survival are now recovering from their harrowing journeys, their doctors report.
Jul 30, 2020
0
15
