Search Tag: Lung Transplantation
2021 06 Apr
In May 2020, a team led by thoracic surgeon Konrad Hoetzenecker of the Department of Surgery of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital performed a lung transplant on a 44-year-old patient who had been seriously ill with COVID-19. She thus became the first patient in Europe to receive a lung transplant for this indication. The Vienna lung transplantation...Read more
2020 31 Aug
Doctors from General University Hospital in Prague saved the life of a 36-year-old woman and mother of a two-year-old child who urgently needed a lung transplant. She survived an incredible 143 days without a full working lung — due to the support of a device called iLA Membrane Ventilator. The iLA Membrane Ventilator is an extracorporeal ventilation...Read more