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Photo by NYU Langone Health. Cheryl Mehrkar with Stephanie H. Chang, MD, who performed the world’s first fully robotic double lung transplant surgery on Oct. 22, 2024.
The transplant institute performed 76 lung transplants in 2023. Just a few months ago, Chang was lauded for leading the first fully robotic lung transplant in the nation, using the novel technique ...
Dr. Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery and director of the Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute, performing a double lung transplant on June 3, 2024.
Lung transplantation is the therapeutic measure of last resort for patients with end-stage lung disease who have exhausted all other available treatments without improvement. A variety of conditions may make such surgery necessary. As of 2005, the most common reasons for lung transplantation in the United States were: [2]
A double lung transplant was successful in late-stage cancer patients for the first time. Northwestern Medicine surgeons performed the operation. New double lung transplant technique is successful ...
He performed the world's first successful double lung transplant on emphysema patient Ann Harrison in 1986 at the same hospital. In 1988 he moved to Washington University School of Medicine, and then in 2005 to the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the head of thoracic surgery at Washington University.
Addison Rerecich (October 1, 1999 – December 30, 2019) [1] was an American double-lung transplant recipient who spent the longest documented duration of time using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy at 93 days. [2] [3] She underwent the transplant at age 11 in 2011 and was the subject of a 2013 episode of Frontline on PBS.
Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago successfully performed a “first-of-its-kind” double-lung transplant on a cancer patient who was told she had limited time left to live.