Lung transplant recipients are highly susceptible to infection, the researchers noted, and P. aeruginosa is a leading cause of bacterial pneumonia for them. Indeed, it was the most frequently isolated ...

she was able to receive her life-changing lung transplant. “It’s such a gift. The word I can use is just gratitude,” she elaborated. “I don’t need oxygen anymore, I’m breathing the ...

To the neighbors, I’m sure it’s trash,” Schomer said about his tenant ... Coincidentally, Schomer himself is a double lung transplant survivor, although his operation came years after Fish’s. “I just ...

The medical world is celebrating two innovative technologies Northwestern Medicine is using to help give patients a new ...

When Ashley Brooks was only six years old, doctors diagnosed her with a heart condition called restrictive cardiomyopathy.

The new “lungs in a fridge” tech can keep the lungs intact for up to 18 hours, compared to about four hours when kept on it.

MADISON (WKOW) -- A Milwaukee mother is back to preaching and teaching after getting a double-lung transplant. She had to ...

Women were also less likely to receive a lung transplant (91.6% vs. 95.6%). Previous research has shown that women are also more likely to die on the waiting list. After transplantation, survival ...

However, among those who received a lung transplant, fewer women died overall during follow-up (34.4% vs 42.7%, P<0.001), with survival rates at 1, 3, and 5 years of 83%, 73%, and 70% versus 79% ...