The David J. Sugarbaker Division of Thoracic Surgery at Baylor Medicine specializes in the care and treatment of patients with all benign and malignant disorders of the chest cavity (thorax). This ...

For 5 weeks, the tiny Impella kept Katrina Penney's failed heart pumping while a second heart transplant was secured.

More than 600 lung transplants have been performed since Northwestern Medicine launched its lung transplant program back in ...

successfully performed minimally invasive thoracoscopic surgery to remove the tumour from her chest cavity. Minimally invasive thoracic surgery is a way of performing surgery in the chest through ...

When a bleb ruptures the air escapes into the chest cavity causing a pneumothorax (air between the ... Patients with blebs will typically have emphysema. Before the surgery, patients are intubated.

It may take a few weeks to gradually recover from lung surgery. Strength and functioning ... is when air escapes from the ...

Ryan Cann is rallying support for his sister, Hannah, and her boyfriend, Sebastian, who are facing a challenging situation as ...