The lungs that Dr. Ankit Bharat took out of Tadd Crosslin, a 49-year-old father of twins, were marred with billions of cancer cells. They were “perhaps the most diseased that we’ve ever seen,” said ...

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

Researchers assessed the impact of cryoablation during lobectomy for lung cancer on opioid use, hospital costs, and patient outcomes.

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine say medical innovations helped them achieve two medical milestones last year: the largest ...

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

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.

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

For patients with stage IA NSCLC, lung resections, including lobectomy and segmentectomy, are associated with improved long-term survival compared with wedge resection.

With 103 lung transplants and one heart-lung transplant in 2024, MHH is the leader in the Eurotransplant network. The lung transplant team relies on minimally invasive procedures and innovative ...

The medical world is celebrating two innovative technologies Northwestern Medicine is using to help give patients a new ...

An autoimmune disease crippled his lungs. Hooked up to a machine that oxygenated his blood for him, for 18 months the boy ...

Patients were included if mechanically ventilated for ⩾3 h during general anaesthesia for the following procedures: (1) all cardiac and vascular surgeries, (2) non-cardiac thoracic ... risk factors ...