LUNG TRANSPLANT

This small, early-stage study is testing whether a specialized heart-lung bypass machine can safely keep critically ill patients with severe pulmonary hypertension and heart failure alive long enough to receive a lung transplant. The device is inserted through a vein and is desig…

This study is testing if adding a drug called tocilizumab to standard anti-rejection medications can better protect transplanted lungs. It will involve 350 recent lung transplant recipients, who will receive either tocilizumab or a placebo for about 20 weeks. The main goal is to …

This study is testing whether adding the drug belumosudil to standard care can prevent chronic lung rejection in high-risk transplant patients. Researchers will enroll 234 lung transplant recipients who show early signs of inflammation or rejection on a recent biopsy. Participant…

This study is testing whether participating in 12 Latin dance sessions can help people who have received a lung transplant feel better. Researchers want to see if dancing improves anxiety, depression, fear of movement, balance, and breathing. The study will enroll 52 participants…

This study is creating a large collection of tissue, blood, and fluid samples from patients with lung diseases like cancer or from lung transplants. The goal is to build a resource for future research to better understand what causes these diseases, how to detect them earlier, an…

This registry aims to collect real-world data on how well a medical device called the OCS Lung System works for preserving and assessing donor lungs before transplant. It will track 10,000 lung transplant recipients in the U.S. to monitor their health and organ survival for one y…