Cystic fibrosis therapies significantly reduce the need for pediatric lung transplants
Pediatric lung transplant specialist Christian Benden, MD, described the future for children who need lung transplants: fewer operations…
Surgeons Kept a Man With No Lungs Alive For 48 Hours While Waiting For a Transplant
Surgeons at work on the double lung transplant. Credit: Northwestern Medicine In the spring of 2023, a 33-year-old man…
Gene variant linked to higher risk of chronic rejection after lung transplant
About one third of lung transplant recipients have a genetic variant that makes them more likely to develop…