A lung transplant is a good treatment option for some people with lung scarring. It’s important to get evaluated for a lung ...

Scars on the lung tissue cause it to thicken ... In more severe cases, a lung transplant may be necessary. Despite a traditionally restricted life expectancy, these advancements in medications ...

The COVID-19 pandemic engulfed the U.S. five years ago this month, leaving not only lingering mental health effects but also long-term physical symptoms. One of those included a condition known as ...

scar tissue replaces healthy lung. Lung transplant centers may hesitate when considering people over age 60 or 65 for lung transplant. The evaluation process for a lung transplant is usually long ...

Jeannine Sperlein lifts the shirt of her husband, David, to show his lung transplant scar earlier this month. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun) Weeks later, Sperlein underwent a double bypass ...

The funding will support the Clinic's efforts to study the causes and treatment of chronic lung allograft dysfunction in ...

Panelists discuss how idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive and often fatal interstitial lung disease, presents ...

Mark Sheppard's daughter got married a year and a half ago — and he got to walk her down the aisle. "Something I never thought I would do," Mark said. The attorney had a bilateral lung transplant ...

Immediately after your lung transplant surgery, you will be admitted to the intensive care unit. You will be sedated and have a breathing tube connected to a mechanical device ventilator in place.