Sentences with phrase «for lung transplantation»

«Shorter stature appears to lead to higher mortality rates, longer waiting times for lung transplantation.»

Although there is anecdotal evidence that suggests shorter adults wait longer for lung transplantation, this is the first study to the researchers» knowledge of an analysis that focuses on the impact of short stature on waiting time and waiting list mortality.

Shorter adults are also more likely to be placed on mechanical ventilation while they wait for lung transplantation, said lead author Jessica Sell, MPH, of the Columbia University Medical Center in New York.

What they found is that deaths in the 90 days after an operation for lung transplantation have gone down over the past 25 years from 19.4 % to 10 %.

Not exact matches

More than 2,000 U.S. children are on an organ transplant waiting list for kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs and other organs, according to the federal Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.

Caucasian and Hispanic children who undergo lung transplantation appear to be at greater risk for developing chronic kidney disease, or CKD, according to a small retrospective study conducted at Texas Children's Hospital.

But patients with the antibodies in their blood are at high risk of dying while waiting for a perfect match, said Brian Feingold, M.D., M.S., study lead author and medical director of Pediatric Heart and Heart - Lung Transplantation at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and associate professor of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania.

To continue to improve long - term results after lung transplantation, the authors suggest that better collaboration is needed between the transplantation centers and the local doctors and hospitals attended by patients for their ongoing aftercare.

«Lung transplantation is a life - saving, resource - intensive intervention for patients with end - stage lung disease,» said Joshua Mooney, MD, instructor of medicine at Stanford and lead autLung transplantation is a life - saving, resource - intensive intervention for patients with end - stage lung disease,» said Joshua Mooney, MD, instructor of medicine at Stanford and lead autlung disease,» said Joshua Mooney, MD, instructor of medicine at Stanford and lead author.

It is the first animal to hit a milestone, set nearly 20 years ago by the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, for determining whether a xenotransplantation approach is safe enough to try in humans, Brenner notes.

In this study, Danny F. McAuley, Gerard F. Curley, Umar I. Hamid, John G. Laffey, Jason Abbott, David H. McKenna, Xiaohui Fang, Michael A. Matthay, and Jae W. Lee looked at whether lungs that were rejected for transplantation because of edema could be «reconditioned» to qualify for transplant.

They studied donor lungs that had been rejected for transplantation by the Northern California Transplant Donor Network and that were cleared for research use by the donors» families.

The research highlights the potential for MSC administration as a therapy for resolving pulmonary edema and improving donor lungs before transplantation.

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It came back, but he has had to endure four cornea transplantations, and is on a waiting list for a new pair of lungs.

Splitting his time between the Karolinska Institute and Kuban State Medical University in Krasnodar, Russia, Macchiarini says he is now also engineering tissues of the lung, heart, and other thoracic organs for transplantation.

UT Southwestern was one of 16 medical centers across the country — and the only one in Texas — participating in a national clinical trial of the technology, which was aimed at significantly expanding the number of donor lungs available for transplantation.

The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation, the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation and a European Society for Organ Transplantation - Astellas Study and Research Grant.

We performed histological examination of GVHD target organs (liver, lung, small intestine, and colon) and the tongue, which served as a surrogate for skin damage (37), 4 wk after transplantation.

Columbia University researchers used a new technique to rescue damaged donor lungs and maintain their viability for transplantation for several days.

Artificial lungs for acute respiratory insufficiency but also for end - stage lung diseases, either for the recovery of lung function or as a bridge to lung transplantation.

Many technological innovations for diagnosis and treatment are expected to reach the clinic following validation, such as video - assisted thoracic surgery, sensitive imaging techniques, use of tracer gases, regenerative medicine (e.g. in lung transplantation), nanoparticle - based carriers of inhalational drugs or bioactive compounds, personalised medicine (especially for lung cancer), bronchoplasty, laser energy as a surgical tool, and metabolic imaging techniques.