Sentences with phrase «lung transplant»

This shortage of donor lungs results in the death of 20 percent of lung transplant candidates awaiting transplant.

After adjusting for illness severity, patients at low - volume centers were 41 percent more likely to die in the hospital than lung transplant patients at high - volume centers.

Previous research established that patient survival is higher at high - volume lung transplant centers.

We have developed one of the nation's premier lung transplant teams.

That same year, the region's first pediatric lung transplant is performed.

The authors recommend encouraging lung transplant patients to go back to work as long as there is no medical reason for not doing so.

It's more like heart - lung transplant surgery.

The authors suggested a number of ways their findings could change lung transplant delivery.

The most recent development for Dominic has been receiving a double lung transplant in June of 2015.

The research also may help explain, in part, why the success of lung transplants in people lags far behind other solid organ transplants.

A transplant biopsy system that uses gene chips to read molecules is far safer and more effective than existing approaches used for heart transplant biopsies and is showing promising results for lung transplant biopsies, new University of Alberta - led research shows.

The University of Chicago Medicine also has one of the leading lung transplant programs in the country.

UC San Diego surgeons are awarded a federal grant to study how to extend survival of lung transplant recipients.

Loyola University Medical Center performed lung transplants on five patients in just over 24 hours.

The study, believed to be the first to look at CKD in children who have received lung transplants, also found that those children with high levels of tacrolimus, a powerful immunosuppressant given to fight organ rejection, circulating in the blood and those who experience at least one episode of acute kidney injury during their recovery also appear to be at greater risk for CKD.

A 44 - year - old man appeared to be recovering nicely after a double lung transplant at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.

But some patients eventually may need lung transplants, and sirolimus can cause potentially fatal complications following transplantation.

Led by lung transplant surgeon Edward Cantu, MD, Penn Medicine is one of 6 sites in the United States participating in this clinical trial, a testament to the high quality of research and patient care available at Penn..

The molecular microscope system is now being developed for lung transplant biopsies, with the goal of changing care for those patients as well.

«High - volume lung transplant centers have lower costs and readmissions.»

Loyola University Medical Center recently performed five successful lung transplants in just over 24 hours.

In 2011, she was within a few hours or days of dying when she received her first lung transplant at Loyola.

In addition to rendering lungs unusable for transplant, pulmonary edema also signals that the lungs are not functioning properly post-transplant and is a major cause of illness and death among lung transplant recipients.

Because of the large number of people requiring lung transplants and the scarce supply of available organs, hospitals today often transplant only one lung.

The patients, all doing well, are a teacher, a judge, an executive director, a grandmother and an extraordinary young woman who beat very long odds to undergo a second lung transplant in three years.

Only 10 % to 20 % of patients who undergo lung transplants survive for 10 years, versus about 50 % for heart recipients.

«Access to lung transplantation for shorter lung transplant candidates could be improved by reformulating the LAS [Lung Allocation Score] calculation to provide greater transplant priority for this disadvantaged group,» Sell said.

The team then tested tissue from three other lung transplant patients who had died from hyperammonemia, including the patient studied by Wylam and colleagues.

But new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that broadly dampening the immune response, long considered crucial to transplant success, may encourage lung transplant rejection.

The world's first human lung transplant was completed here in 1963 at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

After I qualified for Medicare and purchased supplemental insurance, I started asking my pulmonologist about lung transplants.

As a billionaire philanthropist, McKelvey contributed $ 25 million to establish the Andrew J. McKelvey Lung Transplant Center at Emory University to support the research of the doctor who had treated him for a lung - scarring ailment.

It's measured by how many people it returns to work, or by how many lung transplants it yields, or by how it enriches an area — and more.

«Reading small lung transplant biopsies with a microscope is challenging — much more so than other transplantable organs — and that makes diagnosing rejection that much more difficult and prone to error,» explained Kieran Halloran, assistant professor of medicine in the U of A's Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry.

That potential is very exciting for lung transplant clinicians.»

Dr. Mooney said research is needed to identify center practices that improve lung transplant value and can be shared across all transplant centers.

«The Effect of Transplant Center Volume on Cost and Readmission in Medicare Lung Transplant Recipients» was published online ahead of print in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

With greater lung transplant volume, median intensive care unit length of stay was significantly reduced: low - volume centers, 14 days; intermediate, 11 days; and high, 10 days.

The authors of the paper recommend testing lung transplant recipients who have hyperammonemia for Ureaplasma infection.

The genetic research was made possible by UT Southwestern's highly active lung transplant program, said Dr. Garcia, who holds the Kern and Marnie Wildenthal President's Research Council Professorship in Medical Science.

«New clues found to preventing lung transplant rejection.»

«Most immunosuppressive drugs were adopted for use in lung transplants based on their results in other solid organ transplants, without an appreciation that the lung is different,» Kreisel said.

Lung transplants remain one of the only treatment options for these mysterious cases.

We've performed more than 600 lifesaving lung transplants, and our patients» one - year survival rate is No. 1 in the region, exceeding the national average.

The ultimate goal of the Penn Lung Transplant Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion Program is to expand the pool donor lungs available and extend this life — saving therapy to more patients awaiting transplant.

The lung of deceased West Virginia coal miner Chester Fike was taken out during a double lung transplant when he was 60.

Patients with cases of primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) or primary arterial hypertension (PAH) that do not respond to medical therapy may need to undergo a single or double lung transplant operation in order to treat their condition.

In some cases surgery such as lung transplants may be necessary.