Sentences with phrase «received lung transplants»

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.

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

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

I received a lung transplant because of research and persistence with my insurance, primary - care doctor, pulmonary doctor, and transplant hospital.

The man was diagnosed in 2014 with pulmonary fibrosis, a degenerative disease that Landry said would kill his client within a year or two if he did not receive a lung transplant.

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

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

Organ transplant patients routinely receive drugs that stop their immune systems from attacking newly implanted hearts, livers, kidneys or lungs, which the body sees as foreign.

Transplant recipients who receive a kidney, heart, or lung often develop an immune response to the foreign tissue in the form of antibodies referred as donor - specific HLA antibodies.

UC San Diego Health is the nation's first medical center to receive Medicare certification to perform lung transplants.

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

At particular risk are patients receiving steroid therapy, those over the age of 60, as well as people who have undergone heart, kidney or lung transplants.