Lung transplant involves the removal of the damaged lung and replacement with a new healthy organ. To do the surgery, the doctor makes a cut in your side about 6 inches below your armpit. This cut is ...

The five-year survival rate for lung cancer is around 56 ... is introduced into the chest through an incision. The world’s first VATS lobectomy — surgery to remove one of the lobes of the ...

A four-month-old baby girl successfully underwent minimally invasive lung surgery at All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Mariyam Khan, resident of Maujpur, was diagnosed with congenital lobar ...

No treatment for lung cancer today gives us significantly better chances of survival than chest surgery from 60 years ago, according to a medical historian from The University of Manchester. Dr ...

Minimally invasive surgical techniques, which require a smaller incision and from which ... as well as your lung function. Risks of surgery may include bleeding, infection, blood clots, and ...

Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy is a pulmonary lobectomy procedure ... using a special endotracheal tube that allows intentional collapse of the lung which is operated on. The procedure is ...

A cancer patient who lost a lung in a botched surgery believes he should get a life-changing transplant. Video / RNZ / Nick Monro A cancer patient who lost a lung in a botched surgery believes he ...

On Sunday, the 61-year-old comedian shared a video on Twitter, documenting her first walk since undergoing surgery to remove half of her left lung following a lung cancer diagnosis in August.

Corrective surgery eight days later removed the cancerous tumour with his whole left lung but meant the cancer that had since developed in his remaining lung was inoperable. Despite the HDC ...

Coronary bypass surgery is one treatment option to help ... Your surgeon will make an incision in your chest to access your heart and will use a machine to take over blood flow while your heart ...

While phacoemulsification with ultrasonic energy is usually our preferred option, in this case MSICS, or manual shelved incision cataract surgery, could be more favorable. Figure 1. The patient ...