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ANDOVER, Mass., April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Interim results from the International INSPIRE Trial presented today at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) 33(rd) Annual Meeting in Montreal, are indicating significant improvement in post-lung transplant clinical outcomes using the TransMedics Organ Care System (OCS) Lung portable perfusion and ventilation system. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130425/NE01744-a ) (Logo:...

OTTAWA, April 22, 2013 /CNW/ - Today in Ottawa, Hélène Campbell announced the Give2Live Campaign, a social media effort that uses crowdfunding to support the needs of those waiting for transplants throughout Canada. "Many patients waiting for an organ transplant at Toronto General Hospital and other transplant centres are required to live within two hours of the hospital," said Ms. Campbell.  "More often than not, this means uprooting from their home and finding new housing...

Experimental technology could transform field of lung transplantation LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- First there was the "heart in a box," a revolutionary experimental technology that allows donor hearts to be delivered to transplant recipients warm and beating rather than frozen in an ice cooler. Now that same technology is being used to deliver "breathing lungs." The lung transplant team at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical successfully performed the nation's...

PHOENIX, Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Surgeons at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center today performed their 50(th) lung transplant this year, a remarkable number reached by only a handful of hospitals around the nation. It was only five years ago that St. Joseph's performed its first lung transplant and just last November the hospital reached a total of 100 transplants for this young program. The increasing pace of lung transplantations at St. Joseph's comes as...

PHOENIX, Nov. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- On the eve of Veterans Day, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center announced that a 62-year-old Vietnam War era veteran has become the hospital's 100th lung transplant patient. The Phoenix hospital's young lung transplant program was launched four years ago and has attracted patients from throughout the western United States. Prior to the launch of the St. Joseph's program, many Arizona lung transplant candidates had to travel to California for the...

Surgeons at the University of Kentucky on Aug. 3 announced that they were among the first to use artificial-lung technology to demonstrate the feasibility of a lung transplant, using a device invented by two university faculty members, Dr. Joseph Zwischenberger and Dr. Dongfang Wang."The device helps patients get oxygen into their blood by transporting blood to a gas exchanger that removes carbon dioxide and oxygenates the blood before returning it to the heart, bypassing the lungs of...

The impact of traffic air pollution on bronchiolotis obliterans syndrome and mortality after lung transplantationLung transplant patients have double the risk of organ rejection and death within five years of the procedure if they live near a main road, indicates research published online in Thorax.The Belgian researchers tracked the health of 281 patients who had undergone a lung transplant or retransplant at the same hospital between 1997 and 2008 until 2009.They took into account how far...

Two Michigan residents received lungs simultaneously, are recovering well from transplant operations that were a milestone for U-M program ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Michigan Transplant Center celebrated a milestone recently, performing its 500th lung transplant. But there's much more to this story than a number. U-M surgeons performed both transplant No. 499 and No. 500 almost simultaneously on Jan. 3. Both recipients were saved by a single...

Loyola researchers evaluate impact of supplement on lung transplant outcomesVitamin D deficiency is associated with a significant increase in lung transplant rejection, according to research conducted at Loyola University Health System (LUHS). These data were presented Monday at The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2010 annual meeting in Toronto, Ontario."Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent among lung transplant recipients," said Pauline Camacho, MD, study investigator...

There is significant variation among lung transplant centers in the U.S. in the 5-year survival rate of patients, with a higher number of procedures performed at a center only partly associated with longer survival of patients, according to a study in the July 7 issue of JAMA.There are approximately 1,500 lung transplantations (LT) performed annually at 61 LT centers currently active in the United States. "Although LT provides the only option for improved survival for patients with many...