Deron Wells has been fighting for months to get a double-lung transplant and had to battle his health insurance company in a saga that went viral. In Chicago this week for the treatment, Wells ...

Cornelia Tischmacher, husband Udo Kittelmann, and their 8-year-old twins, Lucie (L) and Leo reunited during spring break in April after mom's double-lung transplant at Northwestern Medicine.

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Preventing this complication for those who receive a lung transplant is of the highest priority, as there are no universally effective treatments for CLAD once it is established. The most common ...

UCSF Health’s Lung Transplant program has been awarded INTERLINK’s 2025 Chairman’s Award for Transplant Excellence as the top-performing lung transplant program in the nation. The UCSF program, which ...

Surgeons and teams with Vanderbilt Lung Transplant performed 99 lung transplants in 2024, the most ever in one year. Two of the procedures involved combined organ transplants. For the second ...

Surgeons and teams with Vanderbilt Lung Transplant performed 99 lung transplants in 2024, the most ever in one year. Two of the procedures involved combined organ transplants. For the second ...

Health workers used to have a window of roughly six hours to complete a lung transplant. Within that timeframe, all of the following had to be completed: extracting lungs from a donor perhaps ...

ASSESSMENTS IN KIDS. IN IOWA, WOMAN WHO RODE RAGBRAI BEFORE GETTING A DOUBLE LUNG TRANSPLANT IS BACK HOME TONIGHT. ALL RIGHT. THAT’S BARB HEENAN. SHE WALKED OUT OF THE HOSPITAL YESTERDAY JUST IN ...

Now, Mehrkar has a new feat for her unusual résumé — she’s the world’s first recipient of a fully robotic double lung transplant. “I’ve been in awe — it’s an unbelievable thing ...

Surgeons used the da Vinci Xi robotic system, which had been used in the past for single lung transplants ... and she soon found herself on the transplant waiting list. Finally, in October ...