When a patient needed a lung transplant, high antibody levels meant that only 1 in 10 donors were a potential match. How did the Duke Lung Transplant Program expand the donor pool to find her a match?
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We are open for screening and will be seeing patients for lung screening THIS SATURDAY, Nov. 8 @DukeCancer. Screening saves lives, y’all.
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Another busy day in the @DukeCTSurgery ORs! Grateful for @Duke_Anesthesia and nursing colleagues for support and collaboration. Teamwork makes the dream work!
We did it! Taking a break from our all-trainee retreat yesterday, we climbed 239 steps to the top of @DukeChapel for a bird’s eye view of our awesome campus and @DurhamNC. #DukeSurgery
A Duke Health innovation is saving lives 💙 Partial heart transplants using living valves are now helping more kids with different heart conditions.
Learn about the future of pediatric heart care: duke.is/2/jub9#CommunityHealthDuke | @Duke_Childrens | @DukeSurgery
As a world renowned authority on living donor lung transplantation, surgeon Hiroshi Date, MD, PhD, joins the Duke Lung Transplant Program to advance living lobar donation and other techniques.
Read more ➡️ duke.is/b/6he3@DukeSurgery#livingdonor#lungtransplantation
A @DukeCTSurgery team has pioneered a world’s-first technique that could expand the donor pool for pediatric heart transplants in the U.S. by up to 20%.
Read more about the groundbreaking approach to overcome barriers to heart transplants in infants: bit.ly/4lHoAna
Lung allocation out of sequence (AOOS) does not compromise posttransplant outcomes, but further investigation is needed to fully elucidate the net benefit or harm of lung AOOS on transplant candidates and recipients. ja.ma/4lmr0Hz@sehalpern5@ojawitzMD@asishanaosho
Graduation night! A special group of Chiefs honoring Dr. Keenan with the D’Amico Teaching Award. These @DukeCTSurgery graduates are going to crush it.
Congratulations to all!