Next Saturday is Thank You Day, a chance to express gratitude to everyone involved in organ donation, and raise awareness ...

A New York hospital says it has performed the first fully robotic double lung transplant.

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 NYU ...

Lung transplantation has evolved over 60 years ... to facilitate the candidate’s potential for recovery. Methods for donor-organ preservation are changing with the availability of emerging ...

The University of Manchester has received a $1.3 million donation from alumna Judith Sear to accelerate the University’s ...

In South Africa, there are approximately 3 000 people in need of a kidney, 150 in need of a liver, 250 people are in need of ...

These are removed about 1 to 3 weeks after surgery. The incision will leave a scar that will fade with time. During a lung transplant the surgeon disconnects the veins, arteries and veins and sews ...

Kidneys accounted for the largest number of donated organs at 1,757. Liver donations totaled 886, followed by lung donations at 840 and heart donations at 790. Pancreas and small intestine ...

Since looking at a granuloma inside a living person’s lung is difficult, not to mention dangerous, the most feasible way to do it is through the type of tissue donations the AHRI does its ...

After waiting for more than two weeks for a double-lung organ donation, 19-year-old Jamella Mangali Lo died on October 7 at Queen Mary Hospital. She died "without much pain or discomfort" from a ...