Exercise can play an important role in the rehabilitation following lung or heart-lung transplantation because of its positive effect on aerobic capacity, muscle strength, ability to perform everyday ...

VIENNA — Survival rates at 1 and 5 years for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) who receive bilateral lung and heart-lung transplants are similar, said researchers presenting at the ...

A new editorial published in Comprehensive Physiology underscores the critical importance of understanding heart-lung interactions in pulmonary vascular disease (PVD). Tim Lahm, MD, a pulmonologist ...

Dr. John Gibbon invented the heart-lung machine and used it to perform the world’s first successful open-heart surgery on May 6, 1953. Dr. John Gibbon was a researcher and surgeon at Jefferson Medical ...

Did you know? Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) means an artificial life support for the heart and lungs of those patients whose organs are too weak to function, giving them a second chance ...