Lung Transplants

It’s wonderful that the 10-year old suburban Philadelphia girl in need of a lung transplant whose plight became national news was finally able to get one on Wednesday. “God is great! He moved the mountain!” exclaimed Sarah Murnaghan&...

By Ellen Wulfhorst June 13 (Reuters) - A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl with cystic fibrosis who became eligible for an adult organ transplant after a legal battle waged by her family was recovering on Thursday from double-lung transplant surgery, a...

The emails arrived by the dozens. Then the hundreds. Then the thousands. Family and friends of Sarah Murnaghan had posted an online petition demanding that the 10-year-old, whose lungs were ravaged by cystic fibrosis, be given the same access as...

(Reuters) - A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl with cystic fibrosis who only became eligible for an adult organ transplant because of a federal judge's order is out of surgery after a double-lung transplant on Wednesday and doing well, her mother said....

++++++++++++++++++++ ||   || ++++++++++++++++++++ A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl with cystic fibrosis who only became eligible for an adult organ transplant because of a federal judge's order is out of surgery after a double-lung transplant on...

(Reuters) - The mother of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl with cystic fibrosis, who only became eligible for an adult organ transplant because of a judge's order, said on Wednesday her daughter was out of surgery after a double-lung transplant from an...

Hours into the delicate lung transplant surgery designed to save her life, the prognosis for 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan was good, a family spokeswoman said Wednesday. Speaking by cellphone from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, spokeswoman Maureen...

The availability of lung transplants has been in the public eye lately because of the cases of two terminally ill children seeking transplants.  More than 16-hundred people are currently on the waiting list for new lungs. Each year, hundreds of those...

Katherine "Katie" Robinson was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when she was 9 months old. But as she grew up, often visiting hospitals with extended stays, it didn't stop her from living a full life. The disease causes serious respiratory problems. But...

The critically ill 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who was at the center of efforts to allow children younger than 12 to receive adult lungs was in surgery undergoing a transplant on Wednesday. Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from severe cystic fibrosis, was...

Concerns have been raised about the plight of Sarah Murnaghan, a 10-year-old girl dying of cystic fibrosis and awaiting a lung transplant in Philadelphia. I would like to correct some of the misconceptions about the lung allocation system and how it...