Doctors at Baylor College of Medicine have confirmed that the use of the portable Organ Care System (OCS), or "breathing lung" technology, boosts long-term survival for transplant patients. This ...

The organ transplantation field has seen many advancements over the years, with lung transplant rates showing an upward trend. Consider the statistics. Since 2011, there has been a 148.3% increase in ...

When someone with advanced lung disease — like emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) — has tried all other treatment options, a lung transplant may be their ...

Lung transplant for stage IV lung cancer achieved 100% one-year survival in 17 NSCLC patients in a landmark JAMA study from ...

The lungs play a vital role in respiration but also as an immune organ. The tissue-resident immune cells in the lungs act as the first line of defense against pulmonary infections. Although ...

About one third of lung transplant recipients have a genetic variant that makes them more likely to develop chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD), the primary cause of mortality after lung ...

It took a broke medical student, a $20 fish tank, and a radical idea that could one day turn failed organs into brand-new ...

Lung cancer patients hadn't been seen as candidates for organ transplant. Now a study finds patients did well.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Surgeons at Cleveland Clinic recently completed the health system’s first successful robotic lung transplant in the United States, marking an advancement in minimally invasive organ ...