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Former mixed martial arts fighter Ben Askren received a double lung transplant, his wife said on Monday, June 30, after being hospitalized with 'severe pneumonia' weeks earlier.
I'm starting to resume normal life,” says Dean Comstock, after a shocking medical diagnosis and life-saving surgery ...
Chicago police captain Arthur "Art" Gillespie underwent a successful double lung transplant this year at Northwestern Medicine's Canning Thoracic Institute after being told by other doctors he ...
Former UFC fighter, MMA champ and Olympic wrestler Ben Askren is back in the hospital, weeks after he underwent a double lung transplant surgery in June. Askren, 41, shared an update on his health on ...
According to the researchers, the unadjusted mortality rates over 1 year were 17.24 per 100 person-years for single-lung transplant and 14.97 for double-lung transplant.
Bharat was the first surgeon to perform a double lung transplant on a coronavirus patient in the U.S. Before, only a few other COVID-19 survivors, in China and Europe, have received lung transplants.
Griff Hill of Hudson, who had a double-lung transplant, has raised more than $100,000 for Lifebanc.
The double lung transplant was performed on February 25 using lungs from a donor who had previously had COVID and cleared the virus before dying from an unrelated cause.
Doctors announced Thursday they had successfully performed a double lung transplant on a patient with terminal lung cancer, giving new hope to others who also have advanced stages of the deadly ...
Dr. Lisa Allenspach from Henry Ford’s transplant institute says the grueling surgery is the only solution and that’s why about 1 in 10 lung transplants in the country now go to COVID-19 patients.
Northwestern Medicine surgeons have successfully performed a double lung transplant on a man with terminal lung cancer, they announced Thursday — an extremely rare surgery that could open the ...