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
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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
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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
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(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
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For many with end-stage lung disease, lung transplantation has become a viable option to extend lives and improve the quality of life.
Jul 27, 2020
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A multidisciplinary team from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Columbia University has demonstrated that injured human donor lungs declined for transplant can be recovered by cross-circulation between the human ...
Jul 13, 2020
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Scientists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix, Arizona, have discovered previously unreported genetic and cellular changes that occur in the ...
Jul 8, 2020
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Ayear after his successful lung transplant, Edgardo Diaz, 30, found himself back in the hospital with COVID-19. Feverish and with failing kidneys, his condition quickly became critical.
Jun 30, 2020
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Surgeons in Chicago have given a new set of lungs to a young woman with severe lung damage from the coronavirus.
Jun 11, 2020
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In a study released today in Stem Cells Translational Medicine (SCTM), a team led by researchers at the Eugenia Menni Research Centre (CREM) in Brescia, Italy, show for the first time how stem cells collected from human amniotic ...
May 26, 2020
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