Lung transplant facts

Herald News, The (Joliet, IL);  September 25, 2006 ;     153 words ...Lung transplant facts The first lung transplant was performed in 1988. An estimated 3,500 Americans are currently on a waiting list for a lung transplant; 15 percent die while waiting. People with lung cancer...

Looking for a Windfall -- Lung Transplant Recipients Have Varied Success

Yakima Herald-Republic;  November 16, 2000 ;     596 words ...VOICES STAFF WRITER All lung transplant recipients react differently...the risk but is trying for a lung transplant anyway. Without it, a cold...kill her. She has joined a lung transplant support group consisting of...

LUNG TRANSPLANT MARKS A MASS. FIRST

The Boston Globe;  August 21, 1990 ;     412 words ......yesterday performed the first adult lung transplant in Massachusetts, marking a medical...procedure. Yesterday's four-hour, single-lung transplant surgery was performed on a woman who...The transplant was only the second lung transplant on an adult in New England. The first...

Malaysia conducts its first double lung transplant

Xinhua News Agency;  May 3, 2006 ;     150 words ......conducts its first double lung transplant KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 (Xinhua...undergone the first double lung transplant in the history of this...Medicine (IRM). The double lung transplant recipient is a 37-year...

Some Patients Are Candidates for Combined Heart Bypass, Lung Transplant...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  May 20, 2002 ;     634 words ......have been precluded from receiving a lung transplant because of their underlying coronary...emphasize that this strategy is used for lung transplant patients who -- except for their heart...down at most centers from having a lung transplant because of their coronary artery disease...

Grayslake man an inspiration in lung transplant milestone.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  September 14, 2006 ;     338 words ......University Medical Center's 500th lung transplant patient. Only six other hospitals...rookie of the bunch, received a double lung transplant in August. Loyola's statistics suggest...percent. Smith, 56, received his single-lung transplant in November. Research suggests he...

Lung transplant chief leaving Loyola: Expert, most of his team moving to...

Chicago Sun-Times;  November 16, 2005 ;     355 words ......bragging rights as the Chicago area's only lung transplant center. But now lung transplant chief Dr. Edward Garrity is moving to...and offers us an opportunity to take our lung transplant program to another level," Garrity said...

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LUNG TRANSPLANT PROGRAM ACHIEVES NATION'S HIGHEST...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 29, 2007 ;     478 words ......recuperating organ recipients have helped the lung transplant program at the University of Virginia...UVa's results involved 52 first-time lung transplant recipients and were achieved between...same period, 81.4 percent of UVa's lung transplant recipients reached the three-year...

University of Virginia Lung Transplant Program Achieves Nation's Highest...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  January 29, 2007 ;     483 words ......recuperating organ recipients have helped the lung transplant program at the University of Virginia...UVa's results involved 52 first-time lung transplant recipients and were achieved between...same period, 81.4 percent of UVa's lung transplant recipients reached the three-year...

Yuman hopes to start support group for lung transplant patients.

Sun (Yuma, AZ);  September 2, 2007 ;     528 words ......going. Cross underwent a double lung transplant last year and now is looking to start...wasn't a support group in Yuma for lung transplant patients. So she decided to start...support group will offer help for lung transplant patients, prospective patients and...

First double lung transplant at IJN

New Straits Times;  May 3, 2006 ;     363 words ......Straits Times 05-03-2006 First double lung transplant at IJN Byline: Annie Freeda Cruez...IRM), it performed the first double lung transplant in Malaysia on April 26. On Dec 30 last year, IJN performed the first single lung transplant in the country on a 52-year-old police...

WA: $1.5 million lung transplant unit to be set up in Perth

AAP General News (Australia);  May 21, 2004 ;     271 words ......05-21-2004 WA: $1.5 million lung transplant unit to be set up in Perth...21 AAP - A new $1.5 million lung transplant unit in Perth will remove...WA patients waiting for a lung transplant die before a donor becomes...

YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF LUNG TRANSPLANT DIES FROM INFECTION

The Boston Globe;  March 29, 1990 ;     324 words ...Daniel Beard, the world's youngest lung transplant recipient, died yesterday morning...doctors said. The 6-year-old received a lung transplant after 10 hours of surgery on March...the operation. Daniel was the first lung transplant recipient in Boston and the second...

Lung Transplant Program at Jackson Memorial Hospital Receives Medicare...

PR Newswire;  October 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ......now has the only Medicare-approved lung transplant program in South and Central Florida...professor of surgery and director, Heart/Lung Transplant and Artificial Heart Programs, and...This is particularly good news for lung transplant candidates from South Florida who...

Clinical perspective: Framework and rationale for physical therapy...

Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......The management of osteoporosis in lung transplant patients has focused on drug treatment...therapy management of the patient with lung transplant and osteoporosis. A framework for...identification and treatment of osteoporosis in lung transplant patients has focused on drug ...