Matthew Bacchetta Archive
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September 12, 2019
ECMO program expanding to more intensive care units
VUMC is expanding its ECMO program from its longtime home in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) to the Medical (MICU) and Trauma Intensive Care units. -
August 1, 2019
VUMC performs its first transplant using rehabilitated lungs
For the first time at Vanderbilt, doctors have performed a transplantation with donated lungs that were rehabilitated using a procedure called ex vivo lung perfusion. -
July 24, 2019
Patient who was too sick to attend daughter’s graduation recovering after double lung transplant
Bridget Perez could barely walk a few steps. Now she's walking laps at the Dayani Center track and marveling at how it feels to breathe again. -
May 9, 2019
Rehab technique may boost supply of donor lungs
A new regeneration technique could potentionally add to a limited supply of donor organs for an increasing population with end-stage lung disease. -
February 14, 2019
Celebrating a transplant milestone
Past and present members of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, guests and patients attended a celebration of VUMC’s 500th lung transplant at the Student Life Center Feb. 5. -
January 31, 2019
Transplant Center reaches lung transplant milestone
Alabama resident Andy Bolden spent much of the last five years on the couch, having difficulty doing something many people take for granted — breathing. -
October 25, 2018
Bacchetta to help expand pulmonary surgery program
Matthew Bacchetta, MD, MBA, MA, has joined the Department of Thoracic Surgery as an associate professor and the surgical director of a new respiratory institute at Vanderbilt University Medical Center that will be launched soon.