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  2. Surgeons Perform First-Ever Robotic Double Lung Transplant on ...

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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.

  3. Northwestern surgeons perform first-of-its-kind double lung ...

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    Groundbreaking surgery: Man is wide awake during trailblazing kidney transplant procedure at Northwestern Memorial Doctor says DREAM program is the only one of its kind in the United States

  4. NY woman receives first fully robotic double lung transplant ...

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    Cheryl Mehrkar is the recipient of the world’s first fully robotic double lung transplant. Dr. Stephanie H. Chang, right, an associate professor in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at ...

  5. Lung transplantation - Wikipedia

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    It takes about one hour for the pre-operative preparation of the patient. A single lung transplant takes about four to eight hours, while a double lung transplant takes about six to twelve hours to complete. A history of prior chest surgery may complicate the procedure and require additional time. [23]

  6. Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery - Wikipedia

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    Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is a type of minimally invasive thoracic surgery performed using a small video camera mounted to a fiberoptic thoracoscope (either 5 mm or 10 mm caliber), with or without angulated visualization, which allows the surgeon to see inside the chest by viewing the video images relayed onto a television screen, and perform procedures using elongated ...

  7. Heart–lung transplant - Wikipedia

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    A heart–lung transplant is a procedure carried out to replace both failing heart and lungs in a single operation. Due to a shortage of suitable donors and because both heart and lung have to be transplanted together, it is a rare procedure; only about a hundred such transplants are performed each year in the United States.

  8. New double lung transplant technique is successful in two ...

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    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 ...

  9. Lung surgery - Wikipedia

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    Lung surgery is a type of thoracic surgery involving the repair or removal of lung tissue, [1] and can be used to treat a variety of conditions ranging from lung cancer to pulmonary hypertension. Common operations include anatomic and nonanatomic resections, pleurodesis and lung transplants .