The doctors faced a dilemma: The patient’s lungs were fueling the infection, but he was too sick to undergo a transplant ...
Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.
Two years later, he's alive and well.
A novel external artificial lung system sustained an adult man for approximately 2 days after his irreversibly diseased lungs ...
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Artificial lung keeps patient alive after lung removal
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 ...
In the spring of 2023, a 33-year-old man arrived at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago with lungs that were rapidly shutting down. What started as a bout of influenza had spiraled into acute ...
An external lung system sustained a patient with severe respiratory failure. Molecular analysis confirmed irreversible lung ...
Scientists kept a patient alive using artificial lung system for 48 hours to clear a deadly infection before a successful ...
The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants.
The team's total artificial lung system, or TAL, bought the man precious time until a double lung transplant was viable.
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