Lung Transplant

For almost 6 years, I worked as a retail store manager. In April of 1997, I was put on medical disability due to my declining heart condition. My problems all started when I was an 18 year old freshman in college. Also, the 3 flights of stairs to my dorm room were causing me to [...]

Emphysema is physical destruction of lung tissue that effects in hindrance to air flow and development of enlarged air sacs. It is a smoking related illness that leads to progressive obstruction of the airways and destruction of lung tissue. For the reason that the airway is obstructed, more energy is needed to ventilate the lungs. [...]

Late stage lung cancers are some of the hardest to treat, but in the future scientists maybe able to grow human lungs and simply remove and replace the damaged lung. So far it appears that major steps have been made to make this feasible for lung transplants. In the United Kingdom a specialized team of [...]