A young girl from Shasta Lake has become the recipient of a groundbreaking dual-surgery lung transplant procedure that has ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- For the first time, surgeons in Chicago used breast implants and an artificial lung to save a young man's life. The longtime smoker, and vaper, needed the transplant after getting ...

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Northwestern Medicine on Monday celebrated the health system's first double-lung transplants for two patients who have a rare genetic condition that alters the normal positions of their organs. The ...

For decades, double lung transplants were not considered a viable option for treating lung cancer. “It had been done, but it had always failed,” said Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at ...

Doug Akagi, celebrating 12 years since his life-saving double lung transplant. When Doug Akagi was just 31 years old, he started to notice some troubling symptoms. He couldn’t seem to catch his breath ...

When Marcie Barton was hospitalized with pneumonia in 2018, she assumed she would quickly recover and get back to living her life. Barton is a busy mom of three—two boys and one girl—and she also ...

A 34-year-old Missouri man was recently saved by surgeons at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago who used breast implants to successfully perform a double-lung transplant. Davey Bauer, 34, whose nickname ...

CHICAGO -- Fifty-year-old psychologist Dennis Deer's lungs were failing, scarred by a rare inflammatory condition called polymyositis. Despite carrying supplemental oxygen, the Cook County ...

Ex-MMA champion Ben Askren has undergone successful double lung transplant surgery, per his wife, Amy Askren, on her personal Facebook page. "We are so thankful to share that Ben has received a double ...