A new meta-analysis provided high-quality evidence demonstrating that video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) significantly reduces the risk for death by 21% compared with open lobectomy in ...

Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago were able to keep a critically ill patient alive for 48 hours after removing both of his lungs, the hospital reported last week. The patient, a 33-year-old ...

A team of four surgeons in the Duke Lung Transplant Program successfully performed a robotic bilateral lung transplant June 30, making Duke the first medical institution in the Southeast and the ...

Side effects from lung cancer surgery can include pain, fatigue, cough, and shortness of breath. Discover what to expect after a lobectomy and tips to manage recovery at home.

Lung cancer surgery is the primary form of treatment for most cases of early stage lung cancer. Surgery is particularly effective in cases where the tumor hasn’t spread. It can help treat the cancer, ...

There’s no word yet when the heart and lung transplant programs at the University of Arizona Medical Center will re-open. But UA officials have hired a new director of heart and lung transplant ...

Individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are already compromised, so the prospect of removing all or part of a lung is especially daunting for these patients if they are also ...

Annamarie Patterson has scleroderma and a host of medical issues have resulted from the disease. The mom of five is in desperate need of a double lung transplant but said she was repeatedly was denied ...