For the first time in human application, researchers successfully closed an open wound on the upper chest caused by postoperative complications of lung removal. The protocol and approach were based on ...

For the first time in human application, Mayo Clinic researchers successfully closed an open wound on the upper chest caused by postoperative complications of lung removal. Called bronchopleural ...

When current treatment isn't enough, patients at Mayo Clinic often are among the first to benefit from innovative therapies, new techniques and technologies. For the first time in human application, ...

Acute lung conditions are common in neonatal intensive care units. Neonatal tension pneumothorax has been reported following the use of intubation bougies and airway instrumentation. 1 Bronchopleural ...

Pleural empyema is the most serious, life-threatening postoperative complication of pneumonectomy, observed after 1-12% of all pneumonectomies, with bronchopleural fistula being its main cause. The ...

(HealthDay News) — Bronchoscopic transplantation of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells can close a post-resectional bronchopleural fistula, according to a letter to the editor published in the ...

Intrathoracic negative pressure therapy is an adjunct to standard methods of complex empyema management in debilitated patients. Nevertheless, the use of endoscopic one-way endobronchial valves to ...

Jeneen Leogrande seemed to be recovering from surgery for lung cancer when, on Christmas Eve 2011, she began leaking. Complications weren’t unexpected, given the scale of the operation — surgeons had ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- When current treatment isn't enough, patients at Mayo Clinic often are among the first to benefit from innovative therapies, new techniques and technologies. For the first time in ...