Respiratory infections such as COVID-19 have been responsible for numerous pandemics and have placed a substantial burden on ...

Doctors at Baylor College of Medicine have confirmed that the use of the portable Organ Care System (OCS), or “breathing lung” technology, boosts ...

Paragonix SherpaPak™ CTS and LUNGguard™ System are the only commercially available FDA-cleared and CE-marked hypothermic preservation and transport devices for donor heart and lung transport ...

The first-in-the-world use of the LUNGguard system preserved donor lungs for 7 hours on their journey to provide a patient suffering from Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) with new lungs.

US hospitals performed 2743 lung transplants in 2022 and 3049 in 2023, representing the highest number of lung transplants ever, says Maryam Valapour, MD, MPP, pulmonologist at Cleveland Clinic.

WASHINGTON — Patients with severe emphysema had improved lung function at 5 years after receiving treatment with a support expiration valve system, according to research presented at the ...

Lung cancer is a devastating disease. According to the World Health Organization , lung cancer is one of the most common causes of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 2.21 million cases in 2020 ...

Lung cancer is tough to diagnose early, with about 90 percent of those diagnosed with it dying. So a system like this allows doctors to seek out and biopsy potential cancerous nodes sooner, which ...

The Ion robotic system, made by Intuitive Surgical in Sunnyvale, has a computer that takes 3-D images of a patient’s lungs to map the location of suspect lesions.