NYU Langone’s Dr. Stephanie Chang opens up to PEOPLE about performing the breakthrough procedure on 57-year-old Cheryl ...

There are several types of lung transplant procedures: (1) single-lung, either left or right; (2) bilateral-sequential; (3) double-lung en bloc; and (4) heart-lung. The underlying disease and ...

A New York hospital says it has performed the first fully robotic double lung transplant. The procedure is aimed at speeding up the healing process and shortening hospital stays. It builds on other ...

These include: your blood type, how severe your illness is, your body size, and the number of donors available. For a lung transplant specifically, OPTN must also consider the: predicted survival ...

She had also achieved a fourth-degree karate black belt and dabbled in skydiving and bungee jumping. Now, Mehrkar has a new ...

A surgical team at NYU Langone Health has performed the first fully robotic double lung transplant in the world.

Still, more than 4200 adult patients are on the lung transplant waitlist in the United States, a steady count that has been ...

Platelets tend to cluster in lung blood vessels in people with decompensated pulmonary hypertension, increasing their risk of ...

A supply-adjusted CAS for lung transplants may lower waitlist mortality and increase transplants in women and others with biological disadvantages.