A new artificial lung system might keep people without lungs alive for weeks. Like real lungs, tubes and pumps oxygenate ...
In 2023 thoracic surgeon Ankit Bharat was working at Northwestern Memorial Hospital when he was drafted to help a 33-year-old ...
Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.
The team's total artificial lung system, or TAL, bought the man precious time until a double lung transplant was viable.
Conventionally, patients with ARDS do not get transplants because doctors hope that with the right treatment and support, the ...
An external lung system sustained a patient with severe respiratory failure. Molecular analysis confirmed irreversible lung ...
Only about 150 to 200 lung transplants are carried out in the UK each year and it can be hard to find a suitable donor ...
Northwestern total artificial lung system kept a patient alive for 48 hours after lung removal before transplant, improving ...
When the infection is so severe that the lungs are melting, they’re irrecoverably damaged," said thoracic surgeon Ankit ...
Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago saved the life of young man using a total artificial lung that sustained him until he could receive a transplant.
The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants.