Deron Wells has been fighting for months to get a double-lung transplant and had to battle his health insurance company in a ...

A New York hospital says it has performed the first fully robotic double lung transplant. The procedure is aimed at speeding up the healing process and shortening hospital stays. It builds on ...

Related Appealing flavors may help make e-cigarettes more addictive, research suggests COPD patient receives world's first robotic double lung transplant Double-lung transplant saves Chicago man ...

Surgeons used the da Vinci Xi robotic system, which had been used in the past for single lung transplants ... and she soon found herself on the transplant waiting list. Finally, in October ...

Ankit Bharat, MD, can still remember Cornelia Tischmacher stopping their first telehealth conversation every few words to ...

A German woman has a new lease on life after a novel approach to double-lung transplantation rid her of a deadly cancer. Cornelia Tischmacher, an art dealer and historian from Berlin, was diagnosed ...

An undated photo of Kara Fierro who, in April 2025, overcame cystic fibrosis and complications from a double lung transplant to participate in an aerial dance performance at Cirque Du Kairos.

Her road to survival eventually led to the United States, where Tischmacher received a double-lung transplant at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago the day after Christmas 2024. “During our first ...

A German mother of twins received a double lung transplant in Chicago She received the transplant under a Northwestern Medicine program for advanced lung cancer The mom is now cancer-free and ...

Cornelia Tischmacher, husband Udo Kittelmann, and their 8-year-old twins, Lucie (L) and Leo reunited during spring break in April after mom's double-lung transplant at Northwestern Medicine.