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Human Mini-Lungs Grown in Lab Dishes are Closest Yet to Real Thing

Realistic mini-lungs, grown in lab dishes using adult stem cells, feature all cell types that make up the human organ, allowing for “Phase 0” testing of new...

Realistic mini-lungs, grown in lab dishes using adult stem cells, feature all ce...

2greys

•3 years ago

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Reducing organ transplant side-effects

A new research project aims to use personalised anti-rejection medication to reduce the health risks that organ transplant patients experience following...

A new research project aims to use personalised anti-rejection medication to red...

2greys

•3 years ago

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New study yields insights into chronic rejection after lung transplantation

A study of lung tissue from patients with end-stage bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) as a complication of lung transplantation yielded molecular and...

A study of lung tissue from patients with end-stage bronchiolitis obliterans syn...

2greys

•3 years ago

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Zephyr Valves

Has anyone had experience with the Zephyr valves?

NancyUS

•3 years ago

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COVID-19 patient receives lung transplant from living donors.

Doctors in Japan announced Thursday they have successfully performed the world’s first transplant of lung tissue from living donors to a patient with severe...

Doctors in Japan announced Thursday they have successfully performed the world’s...

2greys

•3 years ago

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Study finds lung transplant patients not given antifungal preventive drugs have higher risk of death.

Antifungal preventive medications reduce mortality risk by half in the first year following lung transplantation, according to Mayo Clinic research involving...

Antifungal preventive medications reduce mortality risk by half in the first yea...

2greys

•4 years ago

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Pleurisy

Hi, I had pleurisy less then a year ago, I play GAA and anytime I’m very out of breath I get a “stitch” like pain just under my right rib cage. (It’s only...

Hi, I had pleurisy less then a year ago, I play GAA and anytime I’m very out of ...

Hidden

•4 years ago

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Success Rehabilitating, Transplanting Lungs using EVLP.

Surgeons at Vanderbilt University Medical Center successfully rehabilitated and transplanted a pair of lungs into a 62-year-old woman using advanced ex vivo...

Surgeons at Vanderbilt University Medical Center successfully rehabilitated and ...

2greys

•4 years ago

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Lung infection symptoms

presentation: When infections, microbes or some of the time growths arrive at the lungs of an individual and start to create, contamination starts in the...

presentation: When infections, microbes or some of the time growths arrive at ...

Sanjayy

•4 years ago

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Using Lungs from Increased-Risk Donors Expands Donor Pool While Maintaining Current Survival Rates.

Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that using lungs from donors who are considered high risk for certain infectious diseases compared to standard risk...

Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that using lungs from donors who are con...

2greys

•4 years ago

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A randomised single-centre trial of inhaled liposomal cyclosporine for bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome post-lung transplantation.

Outcomes after lung transplantation are poor due to bronchiolitis obliterans. Since bronchiolitis obliterans is not readily demonstrated by lung biopsies, the...

Outcomes after lung transplantation are poor due to bronchiolitis obliterans. Si...

2greys

•4 years ago

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Stem cell transplants used to grow fully functional lungs in mice.

Researchers at Columbia University were able to grow fully functional lungs in mouse embryos using transplanted stem cells. The findings suggest that it may be...

Researchers at Columbia University were able to grow fully functional lungs in m...

2greys

•4 years ago

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Why is it hard to breathe in steam?

This is a new thing that has started happening to me: For the past 5 months it has slowly become harder to breathe in steam from the hot showers I take. At...

This is a new thing that has started happening to me: For the past 5 months it h...

Gee_Rokudo

•5 years ago

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Pleurisy #4

Hi all. I'm in bed as I write this, recovering from my 4th bout of pleurisy. I may be imagining it, but it seemed even more painful than usual this time. I...

Hi all. I'm in bed as I write this, recovering from my 4th bout of pleurisy. I m...

saldun70

•6 years ago

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I am new here and need some explaination about chest problems.

Hello, I could never get a clear definition of the difference between CHEST INFECTION, LUNG INFECTION and PNEUMONIA. Doctors tend to say they are the same but...

Hello, I could never get a clear definition of the difference between CHEST INFE...

b-benv60

•6 years ago

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Feel so lonely

Good morning. Around 13 years ago, following my very first chest x-ray, it was discovered that I have a hypoplastic right lung with pulmonary atresia. This...

Good morning. Around 13 years ago, following my very first chest x-ray, it was d...

Deb_Dragon

•6 years ago

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Cough for 5 months

Hello gus . I have a chronic cough for 5 months that occur when im awake but when i feel so tired or about to sleep or already asleep it never bothers...

Hello gus . I have a chronic cough for 5 months that occur when im awake but ...

aeparcs

•6 years ago

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im new here cause i feel hopeless been coughing for 21 weeks

hello guys good day. okay so my cough started last october 27 2017 it started with an heachache,runny nose and chills for 1 day and after that my cough...

hello guys good day. okay so my cough started last october 27 2017 it started w...

aeparcs

•6 years ago

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Over Removal of Turbinates during Septum Correction Op ?

Hello, I've been an on/off Asmatic. A Septum correction operation in 1995 has exasperated my asthma, removal of some essential 'organs' from my right nasal...

Hello, I've been an on/off Asmatic. A Septum correction operation in 1995 has ex...

JamesinDublin

•7 years ago

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IPF I WILL NOT YIELD!

Hi, My name is Margot and I am 70, I was diagnosed with IPF 5 years ago. When my GP told me what I had, he said and quote "you have something called...

Hi, My name is Margot and I am 70, I was diagnosed with IPF 5 years ago. When my...

Margot13

•7 years ago

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Can ILD be cured? Any advice extremely helpful!

Hi all, Come up against another problem - Hope you guys can shed some light / help a bit - I was diagnosed via 2 Biopsies in 2009 (one basic and one very...

Hi all, Come up against another problem - Hope you guys can shed some light / ...

Duchess-82

•7 years ago

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Lung Disease

I have Organizing Pneumonia and RA just wondering after having a lung biopsy and on steroids, results of cancer was negative but just don't feel right. I am...

I have Organizing Pneumonia and RA just wondering after having a lung biopsy and...

Patti1962

•7 years ago

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oxygen advice

I'm new my names David I have IPF need double lung transplant.

beattied

•7 years ago

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Results

So results from CT back and thank God not Cancer. Still bit of a mystery though so being refered to Respiratory Medicine at the hospital as "Mycoplasm" term...

So results from CT back and thank God not Cancer. Still bit of a mystery though ...

shouty

•7 years ago

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Surery for bronchiectasis

Hi folks. I have bronchiectasis which is stil mild but am always looking for research. Every time I look at surgical interventions I hear positive result. It...

Hi folks. I have bronchiectasis which is stil mild but am always looking for res...

falconcottage1

•7 years ago

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Reasons for not giving up. This Site!!!

To day is a new day. I know I am going to have good days and bad days. There are days I am going to have all the support I need and days I feel I have no...

To day is a new day. I know I am going to have good days and bad days. There ar...

Danna

•7 years ago

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prednisolone

I have been given a 3 day course of Prednisolone 6 x 5mg to take for a chest infection. I am concerned after reading the leaflet that it mention slowly coming...

I have been given a 3 day course of Prednisolone 6 x 5mg to take for a chest in...

1pocket9me

•7 years ago

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Happy Christmas

Hi everyone. Hope you have a nice Christmas Think its going to be a wheezy Christmas for me has i have a mild cold i say mild because i dont feel ill with it...

Hi everyone. Hope you have a nice Christmas Think its going to be a wheezy Chr...

music

•7 years ago

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50 Days after a chest infection and brown specks in phlegm

Hello to everyone. I had a chest infection 50 days ago and my chest had rattling sounds and green / yellow phlegms. My GP prescribed AB's and i was feeling...

Hello to everyone. I had a chest infection 50 days ago and my chest had rattling...

GeorgeRuby

•7 years ago

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I am new here

Hi, I am new here and a little nervous. I was put into the hospital on Nov 7th for shortness of breath. They did a bunch of tests. They ruled out pneumonia. I...

Hi, I am new here and a little nervous. I was put into the hospital on Nov 7th f...

gramatt

•7 years ago

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Lung Conditions Community Forum

Different lungs posts

Human Mini-Lungs Grown in Lab Dishes are Closest Yet to Real Thing

Reducing organ transplant side-effects

New study yields insights into chronic rejection after lung transplantation

Zephyr Valves

COVID-19 patient receives lung transplant from living donors.

Study finds lung transplant patients not given antifungal preventive drugs have higher risk of death.

Pleurisy

Success Rehabilitating, Transplanting Lungs using EVLP.

Lung infection symptoms

Using Lungs from Increased-Risk Donors Expands Donor Pool While Maintaining Current Survival Rates.

A randomised single-centre trial of inhaled liposomal cyclosporine for bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome post-lung transplantation.

Stem cell transplants used to grow fully functional lungs in mice.

Why is it hard to breathe in steam?

Pleurisy #4

I am new here and need some explaination about chest problems.

Feel so lonely

Cough for 5 months

im new here cause i feel hopeless been coughing for 21 weeks

Over Removal of Turbinates during Septum Correction Op ?

IPF I WILL NOT YIELD!

Can ILD be cured? Any advice extremely helpful!

Lung Disease

oxygen advice

Results

Surery for bronchiectasis

Reasons for not giving up. This Site!!!

prednisolone

Happy Christmas

50 Days after a chest infection and brown specks in phlegm

I am new here

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