Sentences with phrase «many 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.

K, next time you need major surgery, or chemo therapy for cancer, or a lung transplant, just PRAY for it.

If you think I'm kidding, please recall the 12 year old girl with cystic fibrosis for whom Sebellius initially denied a lung transplant.

She even insisted that he have a feeding tube and be put on the lung transplant list.

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.

But her tenure in the state Senate abruptly ended the following year, when she underwent a successful double - lung transplant at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

The project has been a highly collaborative one, says Vunjak - Novakovic, whose team included three biomedical engineers, a lung transplant surgeon, and a pulmonologist: «This study is truly emblematic of how biomedical research is conducted at Columbia University.»

Dr. Gazzaneo examined the medical records of 38 children who received a lung transplant at her hospital between 2012 and 2014.

He noted there is a huge unmet need for this type of precision medicine among lung transplant patients, who experience the shortest of all survival rates, often running into transplant trouble within five years.

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.

Marc Hartert and colleagues have studied how patients do after a lung transplant, and their review appears in the current edition of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt International.

«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.

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

That potential is very exciting for lung transplant clinicians.»

Researchers reviewed the records of 3,115 Medicare patients who received a lung transplant between 2005 and 2011.

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

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.

High - volume lung transplant centers have lower transplantation costs and their patients are less likely to be readmitted within 30 days of leaving the hospital following surgery, according to a new study of more than 3,000 Medicare patients who received lung transplants.

Sirolimus sometimes is given to lung transplant patients to prevent rejection.

After spending all day May 8 performing one lung transplant, Schwartz stayed up all night performing a second.

Dr. Marcelo Da Silva performed the left - lung transplant, and Perez - Tamayo procured the lung.

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

And an earlier study of pulmonary fibrosis patients who took everolimus found that among 11 patients who had lung transplants, there was no increased incidence of wound - healing / anastomosis problems.

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.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a «Black Box» warning about the use of sirolimus in lung transplant patients, at least when started at the time of transplantation.

Historically, Loyola physicians have not prescribed rapamycin - class drugs to LAM patients who are on the waiting list for lung transplants.

Once a patient undergoes a lung transplant, the patient is immediately taken off the drug.

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

Performing a second lung transplant is an especially difficult operation, due to the buildup of scar tissue from the first transplant and other factors.

As the disease progresses, many patients will need to go on oxygen, and some will require lung transplants.

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

Emerich, a seventh — grade special education teacher, received a double - lung transplant.

«There's a long list of lung diseases for which there are no treatments other than a lung transplant,» added Kotton, whose work is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.

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

The authors wrote that the links between lung transplant volume, costs and early readmission are not clear from their study.

Consequently, many physicians do not prescribe sirolimus in patients who are waiting for lung transplants.

At Brigham and Women's, she led clinical trials in lung transplants and found herself happily pursuing a career in «translational» research that applied basic science to clinical studies.

By 2011, Sam's respiratory function had deteriorated to the point where he needed a lung transplant.

Nearly 1,650 people in the U.S. are awaiting lung transplants.

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.

Lung transplant candidates who are about 5» 3» or shorter have longer waiting times than taller candidates and are more likely to die within a year while waiting for a lung transplant, according to a study presented at the 2015 American Thoracic Society International Conference.

The researchers also checked for the bacteria in two lung transplant recipients who had hyperammonemia but were still alive.

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

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

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

Lung transplant recipients can die from excess ammonia, a condition a new study links to urinary tract bacteria.

In 2013, Wylam and colleagues discovered the likely culprit in one case, a 64 - year - old woman who died from hyperammonemia after a double lung transplant.

«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.

«In mice, memory T cells are critical for a lung transplant to have a good outcome,» said co-corresponding author Daniel Kreisel, MD, PhD, a Washington University lung transplant surgeon at Barnes - Jewish Hospital.