A team of surgeons at NYU Langone Health recently performed the world’s first fully robotic double-lung transplant, a big ...

A 57-year-old woman with COPD has received the world's first fully robotic double lung transplant.The breakthrough sur ...

If you are accepted as a lung transplant candidate, your name will be added to the UNOS waiting list at the transplant center of your choice. Most patients at University of Utah Health spend between ...

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

On Oct. 22 NYU Langone Health announced it successfully conducted a double lung transplant on 57-year-old Cheryl Mehrkar, who ...

Once approved for lung transplantation, each patient is assigned a lung allocation score based on multiple variables. The United Network developed the Lung Allocation Score (LAS) for Organ Sharing ...

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 ...

Cheryl Mehrkar is the recipient of the world’s first fully robotic double lung transplant. Dr. Stephanie H. Chang, right, an ...

Only about 20% to 30% of donor lungs are usable for transplantation. [52] Guidelines for the identification and management of potential lung donors have been formulated by UNOS. Lung donors should ...

Health is ready to breathe new life into Virginia after the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) gave the university’s Hume-Lee Transplant Center the green light to begin lung transplants.

Scientists have successfully transplanted a bioengineered lung into a pig. To create a new lung, experts used a "scaffold" that provided structural support and slowly built up the lung tissue ...