New York, March 20 (Ians) In a first, doctors at Northwestern Medicine in the US, including one of Indian origin, successfully performed a double-lung transplant on two patients with stage 4 lung cancer and gave them a new lease of life.
The lung transplants were performed on a 54-year-old man in 2021 and 64-year-old-woman in 2022; both patients did not require any further cancer therapy after transplant, the doctors said in a statement.
The post-transplant survival at one year for both patients was above 90 per cent, they added.
Using lessons learned from pioneering Covid lung transplantation, the surgeons developed a novel surgical technique to clear the cancer during surgery while minimising the risk of spread that has plagued prior such attempts at other hospitals.
“Unlike the conventional technique of sequential transplants, this innovative technique involves putting the patient on full heart and lung bypass, delicately taking both cancer-ridden lungs out at the same time along with the lymph nodes,...
The lung transplants were performed on a 54-year-old man in 2021 and 64-year-old-woman in 2022; both patients did not require any further cancer therapy after transplant, the doctors said in a statement.
The post-transplant survival at one year for both patients was above 90 per cent, they added.
Using lessons learned from pioneering Covid lung transplantation, the surgeons developed a novel surgical technique to clear the cancer during surgery while minimising the risk of spread that has plagued prior such attempts at other hospitals.
“Unlike the conventional technique of sequential transplants, this innovative technique involves putting the patient on full heart and lung bypass, delicately taking both cancer-ridden lungs out at the same time along with the lymph nodes,...
- 3/20/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
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