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Japan COVID-19 patient receives world's first living donor lung transplant
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], April 10 (ANI): A Japanese woman whose lungs suffered severe damage from COVID-19 became the world's first-ever recipient of a lung transplant from living donors this week.
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Rela Hospital gives an arousing send-off to its 1st heart transplant patie
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 17 (ANI/BusinessWire India): A historic feat for Rela Hospital. A large team of heart transplant experts and the cardiac specialist team from Rela KIMS Heart and Lung Transplant Institute (including surgeons, anaesthetists, perfusionists and nurses), gave
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Antifungal preventive drugs reduce mortality risk following lung transplan
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Minnesota [US], September 27 (ANI): Antifungal preventive medications reduce mortality risk by half in the first year following lung transplantation, according to new research.
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Lung transplant patients not given antifungal preventive drugs have higher
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Minnesota [US], September 23 (ANI): Antifungal preventive medications reduce mortality risk by half in the first year following lung transplantation, according to Mayo Clinic research involving 667 patients who received lung transplants from 2005 to 2018.
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In a first, double lung transplant performed on Covid-19 patient in Hydera
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], September 11 (ANI): In a first of its kind procedure in India, doctors at a private hospital in Hyderabad successfully performed double lung transplant surgery on a Covid-19 patient.
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Gurugram hospital facilitates India's first successful lung transplant on
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], September 2 (ANI/NewsVoir): An active professional from Ghaziabad was amongst the small percentage of the population infected with severe COVID-19 being treated at the critical unit of Artemis Hospitals, Gurugram. With each passing day, it became difficult for him
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First COVID-19 survivor receives double lung transplant in US
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 12 (ANI: A former COVID-19 patient who is in her 20s has become the first person in the United States (US) to undergo a double-lung transplant surgery since the pandemic began.
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F1 legend Niki Lauda passes away
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Wellington [New Zealand], May 21 (ANI): Austrian Formula One legend Niki Lauda passed away at the age of 70 on Monday (local time), a family spokeswoman confirmed in a statement.
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Here's why the body may reject lung transplants
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 4 (ANI): A study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has identified, in mice, a process that may prevent antibody-mediated rejection in lung transplants and lead to the development of therapies to treat this form of rejec
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'Old' lungs may be okay for transplant
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 10 (ANI): Older donor lungs are a viable option for lung transplants and should be considered more often, a recent study has found.
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Firecrackers a 'huge health hazard', says expert
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 13 (ANI): Chairman of Centre for Chest Surgery and Lung Transplantation Arvind Kumar has termed firecrackers a huge health hazard.
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Fortis Malar conducts first case of 'endo-brochial stenting'
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug. 31 (ANI): India witnessed its first case of "endo-brochial stenting" for a lung transplant patient.
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