Pulmonary embolism (PE) remains a major cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality worldwide. It occurs when thrombotic material—most often ...
When the infection is so severe that the lungs are melting, they’re irrecoverably damaged," said thoracic surgeon Ankit Bharat.
Northwestern Medicine surgeons kept a 33-year-old man alive for 48 hours without lungs using a Total Artificial Lung system ...
To allow a chance for survival, that source of infection had to go. Both lungs were removed and the patient switched to ECMO ...
Breakthrough research presented at the 2026 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting shows that additional lymph node ...
Doctors in Chicago saved the life of a young Missouri man with a rare infection that had liquefied his lungs, hooking him up to what they have called a total artificial lung. The patient, whose name ...
Penumbra (NYSE:PEN) announced today that it launched the Lightning Flash 3.0 computer-assisted vacuum thrombectomy (CAVT) ...
As an interventional radiologist at Palmetto General Hospital, I have over 15 years of experience treating venous ...
PEF is a newer treatment option for various cancers in the lungs that have failed first-line treatment. It can be offered for ...