The doctors faced a dilemma: The patient’s lungs were fueling the infection, but he was too sick to undergo a transplant ...

A new artificial lung system might keep people without lungs alive for weeks. Like real lungs, tubes and pumps oxygenate ...

Missouri patient survives double-lung transplant after innovative 48-hour bridge therapy removes infected lungs, offering new ...

By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. By replacing both breathing and circulatory buffering, a novel artificial lung bought critical time after lung removal, revealed irreversible damage, and made transplantation ...

Novel artificial lungs could help keep people whose lungs no longer function alive long enough to get an organ transplant ...

Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.

For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...

THE HUMAN BODY can only go without oxygen for 4 minutes before there’s irreversible brain damage. Death follows 4 to 6 ...

The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants.

A novel external artificial lung system sustained an adult man for approximately 2 days after his irreversibly diseased lungs ...

Northwestern Medicine surgeons kept a 33-year-old man alive for 48 hours without lungs using a Total Artificial Lung system ...

An external lung system sustained a patient with severe respiratory failure. Molecular analysis confirmed irreversible lung ...