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.
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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 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.
By Isabella Hornick
Patients with bronchopulmonary dysplasia who received a lung transplant showed survival rates comparable to those of transplant recipients with other lung diseases, according to results published inCHEST.
“Patients with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) have similar short- and long-term survival outcomes compared with patients undergoing lung transplant for other indications,” Alia Dani, MD, MPH, a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of cardiothoracic surgery at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center at the time of the study and now a pediatric resident at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and colleagues wrote. Read the article in Healio.
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 full story in Healio.
By Anumita Kaur
Davey Bauer’s lungs needed to go.
A double lung transplant was the only remedy for the 34-year-old, who spent years vaping, caught influenza and ended up in the hospital. But before his body could withstand the procedure, he needed time to recover without his infection-ravaged lungs.
Read the full story in The Washington Post.
By Kristin Jenkins
Among patients with COVID-19-associated lung injury (CALI), 45% develop acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and pulmonary fibrosis. Most cannot be weaned from mechanical ventilation or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), and lung transplantation remains one of the only treatment options.
But there was encouraging data from a retrospective case control cohort study.
Read the full article in MedPage Today.
By Isabella Hornick and Joseph Lasky, MD
Given the rarity of pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonologists are constantly seeking to know more about the disease and advance research on treatment options.
Two valuable resources for this research come from the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) through its Patient Registry and Community Registry, the latter of which just celebrated its 1-year anniversary.
Read the full story in Healio.
By Sophie Putka
Patients who received lung transplants due to irreversible respiratory failure from SARS-CoV-2 infection had similar outcomes to those who received lung transplants for other reasons, a retrospective study found.
Among 195 patients with COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) who underwent lung transplants, 1-, 6-, and 12-month overall survival rates were 99%, 95%, and 88%. For 190 patients who had COVID-19-related pulmonary fibrosis, survival rates were 96%, 92%, and 84%, respectively. Read the full article in MedPage Today.