When the infection is so severe that the lungs are melting, they’re irrecoverably damaged," said thoracic surgeon Ankit ...
Pulmonary function tests are a group of noninvasive breathing tests that measure how much air your lungs can hold, how quickly you can move air in and out and how efficiently your lungs transfer ...
Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.
A new artificial lung system might keep people without lungs alive for weeks. Like real lungs, tubes and pumps oxygenate ...
For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...
The team's total artificial lung system, or TAL, bought the man precious time until a double lung transplant was viable.
NICE has recommended dupilumab for adults with uncontrolled COPD and raised eosinophils, citing fewer exacerbations and ...
In 2023 thoracic surgeon Ankit Bharat was working at Northwestern Memorial Hospital when he was drafted to help a 33-year-old ...
A retrospective study finds that more than one third of patients with stage I-IIIA non-small cell lung cancer do not undergo ...
A novel recovery index (RI) integrates desaturation degree, recovery time, and supplemental oxygen use, offering prognostic ...
Elevated fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide exposure in the early to middle weeks of pregnancy had links to lower lung function measures in offspring aged 8 to 14 years, according to results ...