Early acute rejection following lung transplantation can be safely detected and graded by transbronchial biopsy via bronchoscopy.

For patients with advanced emphysema, EBV is associated with higher mortality and morbidity compared with LVRS.

Additionally, the physiological instability and limited lung reserve in infants further increased ... Therefore, compared to traditional open thoracic surgery and thoracoscopic surgery, endovascular ...

The new “lungs in a fridge” tech can keep the lungs intact for up to 18 hours, compared to about four hours when kept on it.

Northwestern Medicine has broken a record for the number of lung transplants, thanks to new technology to widen the donor ...

Researchers have been trying for decades to stop the cells that damage the lung in people with pulmonary fibrosis. Now a team ...

As contemporary surgical practice continues to evolve, patients who undergo surgical lung volume reduction (LVRS) for ...

Last year, surgeons performed 148 lung transplants, the most in a single year since Northwestern's lung transplant program ...