Cheryl Mehrkar with Stephanie H. Chang, MD, who performed the world’s first fully robotic double lung transplant surgery on Oct. 22, 2024. Surgeons in New York have become the first in the world to ...

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

Ali Y. Mansour, MD, Medical Director, Advanced Lung Failure and Lung Transplant Program, and Stephen J. Forest, MD, Surgical Director, Advanced Pulmonary Failure and Lung Transplantation, Associate ...

Women were 32% less likely than men to receive a lung implant before the reforms went into effect in March 2023, researchers ...

More than 50% of lung-transplant recipients experience a rejection of their new lung within five years of receiving it, yet ...

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 ...

WYOMING — After more than a year of doctor appointments, setbacks and delays, Wyoming resident Michelle Rhodes underwent double lung transplant surgery on Sept. 21-22 at the University of Pittsburgh ...

New research from UCLA Health reveals that women continue to face barriers in accessing lung transplants compared to men, ...

Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) is a treatment for end-stage lung disease caused by emphysema. Emphysema is a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that causes shortness of breath ...

Scientists in China have reported transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a human. The 39-year-old patient was a brain dead individual and the lungs were viable and functioning for nine ...

Surgeons in New York have become the first in the world to complete a fully robotic double lung transplant. NYU Langone Health announced that on October 22, it successfully conducted the surgery on a ...