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

Lung perfusion, or "lungs in a box," allows surgeons to repair damaged donor lungs, while lung refrigeration, or "lungs in a fridge," preserves the lungs for a longer period of time than standard ...

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

In 1999, a man from New Jersey put Louisville on the map after becoming the first successful hand transplant patient in the ...

Artivion, Inc. , a leading cardiac and vascular surgery company focused on aortic disease, today announced data from the AMDS PERSEVERE clinical trial (the "IDE") was presented in a Late-Breaking ...

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

Demand’s 500th transplanted organ, being announced today, is emblematic of the gaps and inefficiencies in the current transplant system that the organ recovery, technology and logistics company is ...

Had the ProCure surgeon not been available, the healthy lungs would have been wasted. No organ is too small, no task too ...

Lung-sparing surgery could enhance outcomes for early-stage lung cancer patients by preserving lung function while ...

Your diaphragm body part spans from the front to the back. It is the floor of the thoracic cavity and the ceiling of the abdominal cavity. Many body organs are near the diaphragm. Your heart, lungs, ...