Surgeons removed a man’s irreparably damaged lungs and kept him alive for 48 hours with artificial lungs until he could get a transplant.
Doctors crafted shunts, tubes and pumps into a system that oxygenated blood and supported blood flow through the heart, the team reports January 29 in Med. It is proof that a true artificial lung can keep a patient alive until donor organs are available, says Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
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