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Deron Wells has been fighting for months to get a double-lung transplant and had to battle his health insurance company in a ...
The funding will support the Clinic's efforts to study the causes and treatment of chronic lung allograft dysfunction in ...
The following is a summary of “Outcomes of lung transplantation for end stage lung disease with connective tissue disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis,” published in the May 2025 issue of ...
BUCKS COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- After decades of his lungs struggling, this Bucks County man has received a breath of fresh air. "I've always been on oxygen my whole life. Going to school, ...
A Williamsburg man celebrated his 43rd birthday after a successful lung transplant at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), ...
On May 12th, 2005, surgeons at the Mater hospital in Dublin carried out Ireland’s first lung transplant. Veronica Doyle (then 56), from Limerick, had a three-hour operation to transplant a left ...
Her first double lung transplant was in 2019, and the second surgery was in 2023. “It happened to me when I had COVID that we noticed a sharp decline,” Housman said of the second transplant.
Two years ago, the United Network for Organ Sharing implemented new allocation guidelines for lung transplants that ... were delisted while waiting for a transplant before 2017.
"I was transferred to Mayo and told I had to receive a bilateral lung transplant," said Welch. It's a process that can take a lot of waiting. You're added to a list with other patients, also ...
"My lung function deteriorated to the point of end stage lung disease and a double lung transplant was the only option," DeWitt said. In January of 2024, she received the transplant that saved her ...
There is a need for inclusion of more discriminatory markers of PAH prognosis in donor-lung allocation scores to identify patients at risk and optimize survival to transplantation, given the ...