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.
Read more in Medscape.
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
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.
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.
Quality of life after lung transplant shouldn’t be a taboo topic
By Christie Patient
Amy Silverstein’s second memoir, “My Glory Was I Had Such Friends” (2017), left a lasting impression on me. It wasn’t just because of the way Silverstein’s devoted friends attended to her while she awaited a second heart transplant, or even how that story mirrored my mom’s lung transplant story. It was the impact of one thing that many transplant stories lack: the whole, and sometimes ugly, truth. Read the complete article in Pulmonary Fibrosis News.
By Elizabeth Short
MILAN — Once-a-day tacrolimus significantly reduced chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) in lung transplant patients compared with the standard immunosuppressant, according to the ScanCLAD trial.
Among patients who underwent double lung transplantation, CLAD occurred significantly more often among those who received cyclosporine (cumulative incidence 39%, 95% CI 31-48) versus those who got tacrolimus (13%, 95% CI 8-21, P<0.0001) at 36 months post-procedure, reported Göran Dellgren, MD, PhD, of the University of Gothenburg, in Sweden, at the European Respiratory Societyopens in a new tab or window meeting. Read the article in MedPage Today.
The following is a summary of “Evaluation of Frailty Measures and Short-term Outcomes After Lung Transplantation,” published in the July 2023 issue of the Chest by Swaminathan et al.
Before and after lung transplantation, frailty, measured as a singular construct, is associated with variable poor outcomes. Unknown is the utility of a comprehensive frailty assessment before transplantation. How do multiple frailty constructs, such as phenotypic and cumulative deficit models, muscle mass, exercise tolerance, and social vulnerabilities measured before lung transplantation, relate to short-term outcomes? Read the complete article in Physician’s Weekly.
By Sandee LaMotte
CNN — Fifty-year-old psychologist Dennis Deer’s lungs were failing, scarred by a rare inflammatory condition called polymyositis. Despite carrying supplemental oxygen, the Cook County Commissioner for the 2nd district in Illinois was finding it harder and harder to perform his job.
“It was terrible. I would walk 10 steps and I was gasping for air,” Deer said in a news conference Monday. Read the full story from CNN.
A double lung transplant recipient’s gratitude knows no bounds
By Laura McFarland
A double lung transplant recipient’s gratitude knows no bounds | Photos by Jay Paul
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Lung transplant recipient Sam Kirton at the National Donor Memorial at the United Network for Organ Sharing
“Are you ready to take your first breath?”
When Samuel Kirton’s wife, Susan, leaned over his hospital bed and asked him that question, he admits he initially shook his head no.
Kirton, who had received a double lung transplant the day before, knew he was at a point of no return. Read the full story in Richmond Magazine.
By Rose McNulty
Interpreting spirometry with race-specific reference equations led to a lower Lung Allocation Score (LAS) for Black patients and higher LAS among White patients, which could potentially contribute to racially biased allocation of lung transplants.
Interpreting spirometry with race-specific reference equations led to a lower Lung Allocation Score (LAS) for Black patients and higher LAS among White patients,1 which could potentially contribute to racially biased allocation of lung transplants, according to new research published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society. Read the full article in AJMC.