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Healthy omega-3 fats may slow deadly pulmonary fibrosis: Study

Could the healthy fats found in nuts and fish help to slow the progression of potentially fatal lung scarring known as pulmonary fibrosis and hence postpone the need for lung transplants? Read further on Dynamite News:

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Breast implants saved a man's life during a lung transplant. Here's how.

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine used breast implants and an artificial lung to keep a patient stabilized until his double-lung transplant.

LiveScience

Rare double lung transplant saves 23-year-old patient

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Veteran journalist Sachidananda Murthy no more

Veteran journalist K.S. Sachidananda Murthy, 68, who hailed from Karnataka and had a long stint with the Malayala Manorama Group, passed away in Bengaluru on Friday. He was recovering from a recent lung transplant surgery in the city. He is survived by his wife and two sons.

The Hindu

Trumpeter marvels at making music again after double lung transplant: ‘It was a pretty special moment’

Dan Spees, 64, picked up his horn for the first time in months and played “Joy to the World” in his Northwestern Memorial Hospital room days after his operation.

Chicago Sun-Times

Northwestern Medicine surgeons perform rare ‘flipped organ’ double-lung transplants for 2, including county commissioner

Situs inversus is found in just one in 10,000 people, and it’s even rarer for those with it to need lung transplants. Northwestern Medicine doctors performed the surgery twice in a month.

Chicago Sun-Times

Tributes paid to North Belfast woman Clare Mahon who died waiting on lung transplant

Clare Mahon had been in intensive care for two months following following a deterioration in her pulmonary fibrosis

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Co Fermanagh man waiting on double lung transplant to take on 24-hour sailing challenge

Marty has suffered from pulmonary fibrosis and a number of other lung-related illnesses since 2016

Belfast Live

Glasgow teenager 'not responding' to treatment and needs life-changing lung transplant

Danielle Wards has been in and out of hospital since she was three-years-old after a pulmonary hypertension diagnosis. She now needs a transplant as current treatment isn't 'making a difference'

Glasgow Live

Young tradie warns of silica-related illnesses after needing lung transplant

Hak Kim was in his mid-20s when he started noticing changes in his body while working on demolition sites in Sydney.

ABC News

More than 1,000 sign petition in support of North Belfast mum in need of lung transplant

Clare Mahon has been in intensive care for the past five weeks following a deterioration in her pulmonary fibrosis

Belfast Live

Woman cured of deadly cancer after groundbreaking double lung transplant

Tannaz Ameli had a double lung transplant and is now cancer free - a year after the first patient Albert Khoury, received the novel surgery after all other treatments failed

Daily Mirror

Northwestern unveils program to perform more double lung transplants for terminal cancer patients, after successful surgeries

CHICAGO -- When traditional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation fail, lung cancer can be a death sentence for many patients.

Chicago Tribune

Northwestern University unveils program to perform more double lung transplants for terminal cancer patients, after successful surgeries

When traditional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation fail, lung cancer can be a death sentence for many patients.

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Belfast Live

North Belfast family desperate for lung transplant to help 'dying aunty'

Clare Mahon is currently on a ventilator in intensive care at the Belfast City Hospital

Daily Mirror

Cherished girl, 3, who spent half her life in hospital dies before surgery

Porsha Williams fought every day at a hospital in Cardiff, leaving her family in awe of her bravery, but she tragically died heading for a lung transplant with hope

Irish Mirror

GAA star who had double lung transplant and now needs a kidney vows to run a marathon even if he has to crawl

Although currently being assessed for a kidney transplant, three time marathon runner David Crosby has pledged he will again walk or crawl another gruelling race in time and reach his ultimate goal of completing six of the contests.

The Independent UK

UK’s first double lung transplant spent five months on life support due to Covid

The 50-year-old hotel engineer praises ‘selfless’ organ donor who saved his life

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Daily Mirror

Dad 'shackled to life support' with Covid gets UK's first double lung transplant

Cesar Franco, a 50-year-old maintenance engineer at a five-star hotel in central London, caught Covid-19 just before Christmas last year and went on to develop develop inflammation of the lungs

The Independent UK

Man hails success of first UK double lung transplant for Covid complications - OLD

Cesar Franco contracted Covid-19 just before Christmas last year.

Evening Standard

London surgeons carry out first successful double lung transplant for Covid patient in the UK

Cesar Franco, 50, is back spending time with his family after nearly dying from the virus in hospital

The Guardian - UK

‘A gift of life’: the NHS double lung transplant that saved Covid patient

After months in intensive care, Cesar Franco became the first person in Britain to have the operation because of the virus

Tribune News Service

The nation’s longest double-lung transplant patient dies at 60 in North Carolina

WILMINGTON, N.C. — In 1990, Howell Graham was so weakened by cystic fibrosis that he got winded brushing his teeth. He couldn’t work or socialize, reduced to a half-life with his arm attached to an antibiotics port.

Daily Mirror

Lung transplant patient dies from infection linked to contaminated water at hospital

Concerns over a lack of guidance to hospitals around identifying and controlling multidrug-resistant bacteria have been expressed after two women died at the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge in 2020

Wales Online

Two mums died after contracting infection following double lung transplants in NHS hospital

20 other lung patients at the same hospital also contracted the same bacterial infection thought to have come from 'a contaminated water supply'

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