Speaking at Hospital Healthcare Europe’s Spring 2025 Clinical Excellence in Respiratory Care event, Professor Paul Corris shared insights into the when, why and how of lung transplantation. Here, you have exclusive access to the session recording.
Organ transplantation is one of the most significant advancements in the history of medicine, but disparities have been well documented in terms of access to these procedures and the often lengthy waiting lists are notable.
For lung transplantation, of which there are now around 4,500 transplantations undertaken every year, progress since the 1980s has been commendable and a slow but steady increase in overall survival has been noted. This has been driven by a strengthening of clinical criteria for appropriate recipients; a focus on appropriate donor lungs – including the development of novel approaches such as ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) – optimising the surgery itself; and careful post-operative care, which now includes extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
Professor Paul Corris is emeritus professor of thoracic medicine at Newcastle University and the University of Oxford. In this Clinical Excellence session, he discusses the clinical indicators for lung transplantation and the patients that need them, pre-transplant investigations and post-transplant complications and management, as well as the latest advancements in lung transplantation making a difference for clinicians and patients.
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This article is part of our Clinical Excellence series, which offers valuable first-hand insights into how experts from renowned Centres of Excellence are pursuing innovative approaches to optimise patient care across the UK and Europe.
