An artificial lung system sustained a patient for 48 hours without lungs, enabling a life-saving double transplant and highlighting the need for earlier intervention in severe ARDS.

Doctors at Baylor College of Medicine have confirmed that the use of the portable Organ Care System (OCS), or “breathing lung” technology, boosts long-term survival for transplant patients. This ...

Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago were able to keep a critically ill patient alive for 48 hours after removing both of his lungs, the hospital reported last week. The patient, a 33-year-old ...

A total artificial lung system developed at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine kept a patient alive for 48 hours after lung removal and prior to lung transplant, according to a study publishing Jan.

Humans can’t live without lungs. But Ankit Bharat’s patient did for 48 hours. Reporting January 29 in the Cell Press journal Med, surgeons describe how they removed a patient’s infected lungs and ...

Editor’s note: This story includes graphic video of the artificial lung system at the end. Hit play to uncensor the video. Surgeons removed a man’s irreparably damaged lungs and kept him alive for 48 ...

Surgeons engineered the TAL to serve as a vital bridge-to-transplant. Generally, humans cannot survive without lungs. But the groundbreaking case study by lead author and Northwestern Medicine ...

Study: Bridge to transplant using a flow-adaptive extracorporeal total artificial lung system following bilateral pneumonectomy. Image Credit: AbirArt007 / Shutterstock.com A recent case report ...

The process of staging lung cancer accurately plays a major role in establishing treatment options and predicting survival. Proper lung cancer staging demands a thorough understanding of TNM-8, which ...

Inflammation caused by lupus may affect the lungs in many ways, and can involve the membrane lining of the lungs, the lungs themselves, the blood vessels within the lungs, and the diaphragm. The most ...