Heart & Lung Transplant

Heart & Lung Transplant News

  • ECMO Can Be a Bridge to Lung Transplantation ECMO Can Be a Bridge to Lung Transplantation Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can help awake, spontaneously breathing patients survive long enough to receive a lung transplant.
    Reuters Health Information, January 24, 2012
  • Obesity Hinders Lung Transplant Success Obesity Hinders Lung Transplant Success Obesity is an independent risk factor for poor outcome after lung transplantation, according to a report online June 29th in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
    Reuters Health Information, August 22, 2011
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Heart & Lung Transplant Perspectives

  • Latest on LVADs: What All Docs Need to Know Latest on LVADs: What All Docs Need to Know   Ileana L. Piña, MD talks to James Kirklin about mechanical assist devices and how LVADs have graduated from being transition devices for transplant patients to long term therapy.
    Medscape Cardiology, December 19, 2011
  • Devices for Heart Failure From TCT 2011: Stay Updated Devices for Heart Failure From TCT 2011: Stay Updated   Ileana Piña urges cardiologists to learn about the latest in devices from the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 23rd Annual Scientific Symposium.
    Medscape Cardiology, November 11, 2011
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