Chicago police captain Arthur "Art" Gillespie underwent a successful double lung transplant this year at Northwestern Medicine's Canning Thoracic Institute after being told by other doctors he ...

Bharat was the first surgeon to perform a double lung transplant on a coronavirus patient in the U.S. Before, only a few other COVID-19 survivors, in China and Europe, have received lung transplants.

The double lung transplant was performed on February 25 using lungs from a donor who had previously had COVID and cleared the virus before dying from an unrelated cause.

According to the researchers, the unadjusted mortality rates over 1 year were 17.24 per 100 person-years for single-lung transplant and 14.97 for double-lung transplant.

I'm starting to resume normal life,” says Dean Comstock, after a shocking medical diagnosis and life-saving surgery ...

A New York hospital says it has performed the first fully robotic double lung transplant. The procedure is aimed at speeding up the healing process and shortening hospital stays. It builds on ...

SAN ANTONIO - A new twist in a story of resilience we've covered for over three years now. Cynthia (Cindy) Garcia underwent a double-lung transplant back in 2021. She was the first person to have ...

Typically, a double-lung transplant takes six to seven hours, but this surgery took about 10 hours due to lung damage and severe inflammation in the chest cavities from COVID-19.

Doctors announced Thursday they had successfully performed a double lung transplant on a patient with terminal lung cancer, giving new hope to others who also have advanced stages of the deadly ...

A double lung transplantation offers a potentially lifesaving option for some people with a poor prognosis, but doctors say there are specific criteria a lung cancer patient must meet, including ...

Following Ramirez's transplant, Northwestern conducted a second double-lung transplant for Brian Kuhns, a 62-year-old coronavirus patient.

Northwestern Medicine surgeons have successfully performed a double lung transplant on a man with terminal lung cancer, they announced Thursday — an extremely rare surgery that could open the ...