For 22 years, Hall has lived with the disease until it made her undergo a double lung transplant on Nov. 17 at 38 years old. According to the Mayo Clinic, pulmonary fibrosis is the scarring and ...

New York University Langone successfully performed the world’s first robotic double lung transplant last October 22. Yahoo News says John Hopkins University and Stanford University researchers ...

This is because the scarring causes the tissues in the lungs to get thick and stiff and makes it hard to absorb oxygen into the bloodstream. Pulmonary fibrosis is an interstitial lung disease.

Patricia Murolo, 69, received a kidney transplant 31 years ago when she was about the same age as her daughter and has been going strong ever since. "She's going to be fine," Murolo said Monday of ...

Bronchiolitis obliterans is a serious, irreversible lung disease. It is often caused by toxin inhalation but can also develop after a lung or bone marrow transplant. Also known as obliterative ...

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia, or BPD, is a serious lung condition that affects mostly babies who are born more than 10 weeks before their due date, weigh less than two and a half pounds, have breathing ...

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery of General Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China Preface and importance: Burkitt’s lymphoma ...

Werkle, a Fairfield native, is searching for someone who can donate part of their liver to save her life as she and roughly 200 other Connecticut residents sit on a liver transplant waiting list.

That’s the double lung and liver,” said Dr. Gibbon. A team at Northwestern is the first to perform a transplantation of both lungs and the liver on a patient with advanced lung cancer.

The identification of incidentally explanted lung cancer should not immediately rule out lung transplant in candidates with end-stage pulmonary disease. “Lung transplants are used to treat end-stage ...