Annual low-dose CT (LDCT) scans for people at high risk for lung cancer have proved to reduce the chance of death from the disease by 20 percent. However, only about 5 percent of eligible people are being screened.
Annual low-dose CT (LDCT) scans for people at high risk for lung cancer have proved to reduce the chance of death from the disease by 20 percent. However, only about 5 percent of eligible people are being screened.
At the point a patient with advanced lung disease is considered for transplant, he or she is severely ill. While all transplants are challenging, patients who undergo lung transplant can face a particularly rough road. To gain a more in-depth understanding of the patient under consideration, Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas (Baylor Dallas), part of Baylor Scott & White Health, has embedded supportive palliative care into the lung transplant program.
The heart transplant team from Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas (Baylor Dallas), part of Baylor Scott & White Health, played a prominent role at the American Transplant Congress (ATC) meeting, held June 3 – 7, 2023 in San Diego, Calif. A joint annual meeting of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation (AST), the forum exchanges new clinical information on tissue and solid organ transplantation and provides education on cutting-edge advances and research. The conference brings together transplant physicians, scientists, nurses, organ procurement personnel, pharmacists and allied health professionals.
Baylor Scott & White Health played a leading role at the 43rd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), held April 19-22, 2023, in Denver, Colorado. More than 3,600 members from around the world gathered to exchange ideas and collaborate on the latest science.
To provide advanced heart failure treatment to patients in north Louisiana, Baylor Scott & White Health has established an outreach clinic in Shreveport. Since October 2022, Amarinder Bindra, MD, an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist on the medical staff at Baylor University Medical Center (Baylor Dallas), part of Baylor Scott & White Health, sees six to eight new patients at each weekly visit.