To allow a chance for survival, that source of infection had to go. Both lungs were removed and the patient switched to ECMO ...
For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...
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.
Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.
A new artificial lung system might keep people without lungs alive for weeks. Like real lungs, tubes and pumps oxygenate ...
In a remarkable act of life preservation, surgeons were able to keep a critically ill man alive for 48 hours without a pair ...
The procedure, led by Dr Ankit Bharat, thoracic surgeon at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, ...
After lung transplantation, infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa independently predicted antibody-mediated rejection (AMR), researchers found. Through a series of mouse-model studies, the researchers ...
Not getting enough vitamin D can weaken bones, teeth, and muscles by interfering with calcium absorption. Lack of the vitamin ...