Archive for the 'Transplants / Organ Donations' Category


Eighty-Four Percent More Lung Transplants In Canada Over 10 Years

Since the world's first successful lung transplant was performed in Canada 25 years ago, the number of lung transplants performed annually has grown significantly. A new report released today by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows that lung transplants in Canada increased from 93 in 1997, to 171 in 2006, rising at a faster rate than solid organ transplants in general (up 29% over the same period).
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12/23/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma - Transplants / Organ Donations | Trackback | Comments Off

Donor Lungs Made To Breathe Outside Body - International Breakthrough For Transplant Team At Wythenshawe Hospital, South Manchester, England

The transplant team at University Hospital of South Manchester (UHSM) have successfully transplanted the UK's first patient using donor lungs that have been made to breathe outside the body. This is the first time this has been undertaken anywhere in the world outside Sweden and means up 25% more patients could benefit from lung transplants every year.
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12/01/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma - Transplants / Organ Donations | Trackback | Comments Off

TB Patient Gets New Windpipe Made With Own Stem Cells

A 30-year old Columbian woman living in Spain whose airway was damaged from tuberculosis is the first person in the world to receive a new airway engineered from tissue that was grown from her own stem cells which means she is likely to have a much better quality of life because she will probably not have to take drugs for the rest of her life to stop her immune system rejecting the tissue.
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11/19/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma - Transplants / Organ Donations | Trackback | Comments Off

New Lung Transplantation Research Presented At CHEST 2008

#7710: IRREGULAR HEARTBEAT MAY DEVELOP AFTER LUNG TRANSPLANTATION Patients receiving donated lungs may develop arrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation. Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Texas reviewed the charts of all lung transplant recipients in 2006 and 2007. Of the 75 patients who underwent lung transplant, 38 percent developed arrhythmias within 30 days of transplantation.
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10/29/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma - Transplants / Organ Donations | Trackback | Comments Off

Vitrolife: International Breakthrough For New Transplantation Technique

A lung transplantation has for the first time been carried out using the STEEN Solution™ technology outside Sweden. Earlier on in the development and the first clinical use eight transplantations have been carried out using STEEN Solution™ at the University Hospital of Lund, where the technology was developed under the leadership of Professor Stig Steen. The method has now for the first time been used clinically somewhere else.
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09/10/2008 | Respiratory & Asthma - Transplants / Organ Donations | Trackback | Comments Off

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