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Improving Clinical Outcomes for Venous Thromboembolism News

Improving Clinical Outcomes for Venous Thromboembolism

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is serious condition that begins with a blood clot in a vein – often in the lower leg – that makes its way to the lungs, causing a pulmonary embolism with potentially fatal consequences.
Deadly Dust: Engineered Stone Is Making California Workers Sick News

Deadly Dust: Engineered Stone Is Making California Workers Sick

Workers making artificial-stone slabs for the most popular type of countertops sold in the United States are developing a potentially deadly, irreversible lung disease from tiny particles of toxic dust, researchers from UC San Francisco and UCLA found...
Millions of Long-Term Smokers Have Lung Disease that Defies Diagnosis News

Millions of Long-Term Smokers Have Lung Disease that Defies Diagnosis

Millions of Americans with tobacco-related lung disease have symptoms that do not fit any existing tobacco-related disease criteria – including the most common of those, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...
Can Reducing Insulin Resistance Minimize Severe Asthma Symptoms? News

Can Reducing Insulin Resistance Minimize Severe Asthma Symptoms?

UCSF researchers led a study that found insulin resistance (IR) is common in patients with severe asthma and is associated with lung function impairment and suboptimal responses to asthma medications.
UCSF’s First Medical Director of Robotic Surgery on Improving Patient Outcomes and Enabling Innovation News

UCSF’s First Medical Director of Robotic Surgery on Improving Patient Outcomes and Enabling Innovation

Thoracic surgeon Johannes Kratz, MD, has been selected as UCSF’s first medical director of robotic surgery.
New ATS Recommendation: Use Race-Neutral Equations for Pulmonary Function Test Interpretation to Improve Patient Care News

New ATS Recommendation: Use Race-Neutral Equations for Pulmonary Function Test Interpretation to Improve Patient Care

An American Thoracic Society (ATS) workshop committee, which included many UCSF researchers, recently released an official statement recommending the use of race-neutral average reference equations for pulmonary function test (PFT) interpretation.
Susceptibility to Pathogenic T Cells in Chronic Lung Disease May have a Genetic Basis News

Susceptibility to Pathogenic T Cells in Chronic Lung Disease May have a Genetic Basis

Respiratory viral infections pose significant morbidity and mortality to patients with chronic lung diseases like emphysema and COPD, causing exacerbations that drive destruction of normal lung tissue, and leading to one of the most common diagnoses for hospital admissions.
Some Patients with Lung Disease Fare Worse Than Others. Could Sleep Explain It? News

Some Patients with Lung Disease Fare Worse Than Others. Could Sleep Explain It?

Flare-Ups in COPD Linked to Sleeplessness, UCSF-Led Study Shows
UCSF Lung Transplant Clinic in Roseville Document

UCSF Lung Transplant Clinic in Roseville

UCSF Lung Transplant Clinic in Roseville
Race-Based Equations May Lead to Under-Treatment of Lung Disease in Black Patients News

Race-Based Equations May Lead to Under-Treatment of Lung Disease in Black Patients

Using race-based equations to evaluate lung disease -- a practice promoted in the 2019 guidelines of the American Thoracic Society -- may mean that severe lung disease in Black patients is classified as moderate disease, according to a UCSF-led study.
Renowned Pulmonary Disease Specialist to Lead UCSF Pulmonology Program News

Renowned Pulmonary Disease Specialist to Lead UCSF Pulmonology Program

Prescott Woodruff, MD, MPH, a renowned leader in the pathogenesis and treatment of airway disease, has been appointed chief of UC San Francisco’s Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine. Prescott will assume the role of chief on July 1.
New Research on Cell Regeneration Shows Promise for Treating Lung Injury and Fibrosis News

New Research on Cell Regeneration Shows Promise for Treating Lung Injury and Fibrosis

In a new study, UCSF researchers showed that they could successfully redirect profibrotic murine lung cells to a nonfibrotic state in which they regenerated alveoli. These findings could lead to novel treatments for lung injury and fibrosis.
UCSF Lung Transplant Patient No. 1,000 Looks Ahead to More of the Good Life News

UCSF Lung Transplant Patient No. 1,000 Looks Ahead to More of the Good Life

Hospital Innovations Boost 3-Year Survival From 50% in 2001 to 90% 20 Years Later
UCSF-led Study Uncovers Unique Stem Cell Trajectory in Lungs Damaged by COVID-19 and Pulmonary Fibrosis News

UCSF-led Study Uncovers Unique Stem Cell Trajectory in Lungs Damaged by COVID-19 and Pulmonary Fibrosis

In a collaborative study between UCSF researchers appearing December 30 in Nature Cell Biology, UCSF researchers Jaymin Kathiriya, PhD, and Chaoqun Wang, PhD, discovered that severe lung injuries can trigger lung stem cells to undergo abnormal differentiation. Drs. Kathiriya and Wang, supervised by Hal Chapman, MD, and Tien Peng, MD, respectively, utilized stem cell organoid models to uncover a novel stem cell pathway that is seen in severely injured lungs from COVID-19 and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients.
Activating Immune Surveillance Mechanisms Shows Promise for Treating Diabetes and Pulmonary Fibrosis News

Activating Immune Surveillance Mechanisms Shows Promise for Treating Diabetes and Pulmonary Fibrosis

Researchers at UC San Francisco recently found that activating invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells eliminated inflammatory senescent cells associated with chronic diseases in vivo. In the study, obese mice showed improved glucose control and mice with pulmonary fibrosis had decreased lung fibrosis and increased survival.
UCSF Post-COVID Clinic Treats Long Haulers News

UCSF Post-COVID Clinic Treats Long Haulers

UC San Francisco’s OPTIMAL Clinic (pOst-covid-19/PosT-Icu MultidisciplinAry cLinic) is one of the first clinics in the country established to provide follow-up care for patients who have recovered from COVID-19. The clinic’s goal is to optimize patient recovery through a centralized resource designed to coordinate with primary care services.
Lung Transplant Outcomes at UCSF Among the Nation’s Best News

Lung Transplant Outcomes at UCSF Among the Nation’s Best

For nine consecutive years, the UCSan FranciscoLung Transplant Program has achieved significantly higher-than-expected survival rates following transplant surgery. It is the only lung transplant program in the country with this record.
UCSF MD Link: Web-Based Communication Portal for Physicians Document

UCSF MD Link: Web-Based Communication Portal for Physicians

Our web portal allows referring physicians to securely access their patients’ entire electronic health record, make online referral requests and communicate with our physicians directly and securely.
Virtual Monitoring for Lung Transplant Patients Aided by Home Spirometry Device News

Virtual Monitoring for Lung Transplant Patients Aided by Home Spirometry Device

A new home spirometry kit combines a spirometer with a patient engagement platform to collect lung function data and symptoms remotely. This enables UCSF’s Lung Transplant team to remotely track patients with the goal of identifying both symptomatic and asymptomatic changes in lung function that may be the first sign of early chronic rejection.
Lung Transplant Program Document

Lung Transplant Program

For nine consecutive years, the UCSF Lung Transplant Program has had significantly higher-than-expected post-surgery survival rates — the only program in the country with this record.