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 ...

While IL-6 and CRP rise early after lung cancer surgery, new research shows their added value for infection prediction remains small, highlighting the need for better early-warning tools. Does ...

For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...

A patient has survived for two days on externally oxygenated blood in the gap between their diseased lungs being removed and ...

Doctors in Chicago saved the life of a young Missouri man with a rare infection that had liquefied his lungs, hooking him up to what they have called a total artificial lung. The patient, whose name ...