By F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE
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F. Perry Wilson, MD: Hello. I am Dr F. Perry Wilson. I’m an associate professor of medicine and public health at the Yale School of Medicine. I am joined today by two amazing physicians, Dr Rade Tomic, who is a professor of medicine, pulmonology, and critical care and medical director of the Lung Transplant Program at Northwestern Medicine.
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After a lifesaving lung transplant, Glen Hohn then had a life-threatening bout of COVID-19. However, thanks to his care team and some music therapy, his lungs improved, his confidence grew and he was discharged after an extraordinary experience.
Watch this story from Nebraska Medicine.
By Jennifer Mayerle
BEMIDJI, Minn. — A retired firefighter WCCO first met back in May is now home for the holidays. Walt Lindahl and his wife Amy have spent the past eight months in Rochester as Walt dealt with severe lung disease.
Four months ago, he underwent a double lung transplant. Walt and Amy went back home in Bemidji recently with a new appreciation for the little things in life. Read the article in WCCO CBS News Minnesota.
By Isabella Hornick
Lung transplant recipients with extreme low or high BMIs had heightened risks for death due to acute respiratory failure and chronic lung allograft dysfunction, according to results published inAnnals of the American Thoracic Society. Read the article in Healio.
By News 12 Staff
A Plainview man is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his double lung transplant.
When Gary Klausner was 10, he was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. He says the life expectancy in 1975 for someone with the disease was around 16. Watch the full story from News 12 Long Island.
By Elise Devlin
GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – One family’s tragedy has turned into another family’s miracle.
In March of 2021, Neil Patel went into cardiac arrest while driving and died in a car accident.
It was at the same time that Joe Robl was in desperate need of a new pair of lungs. About two days later, it was Patel’s donation that saved his life. Read the article on WSPA CBS 7 News.
By Isabella Hornick
Since its first transplant in March 2022, the Mount Sinai Lung Transplantation Program has performed a total of 35 lung transplants with a 180-day survival rate of 88.6%, according to a presentation. Read the article in Healio.
Dec 4, 2023 | Heart/lung, News, Policy monitoring reports
A new data monitoring report evaluates key metrics six months after the implementation of the current lung allocation system that went into effect March 9, 2023.
Lung is the first organ type to adopt the flexible and patient-centric system known as continuous distribution. Under the current system, each lung candidate is assigned a single and unique score for each match run that combines multiple factors to determine priority. Read the full article from UNOS.
By Isabella Hornick
By Lisa Anderson, PhD
In the transplantation world, technology has played a major role in advancing the way donor organs are transported and preserved.
One advancement in lung transplant preservation that recently received FDA 510(k) clearance is the BAROguard system (Paragonix Technologies), which is designed to keep lungs at optimal temperatures and inflation pressures during transport, according to a press release. Read the article in Healio.
Reporter: Amy Oshier Writer: Nicholas Karsen
Lung cancer tops the list of cancer-related deaths in the United States, surpassing colon, breast and prostate cancer deaths combined.
For patients who have been diagnosed late, survival is slim. Now, a new groundbreaking double lung transplant is giving patients hope of becoming cancer-free. Read the article in WINK.