The doctors faced a dilemma: The patient’s lungs were fueling the infection, but he was too sick to undergo a transplant ...

By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. By replacing both breathing and circulatory buffering, a novel artificial lung bought critical time after lung removal, revealed irreversible damage, and made transplantation ...

Northwestern Medicine surgeons kept a 33-year-old man alive for 48 hours without lungs using a Total Artificial Lung system ...

Missouri patient survives double-lung transplant after innovative 48-hour bridge therapy removes infected lungs, offering new ...

Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.

Surgeons report a case in which artificial lungs kept a man alive for 48 hours after both lungs were removed, allowing time for a transplant.

In an important technical breakthrough, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have created a prototype artificial lung that functions with air -- just like human lungs. Current artificial ...

In 2023 thoracic surgeon Ankit Bharat was working at Northwestern Memorial Hospital when he was drafted to help a 33-year-old influenza patient who was on the verge of death. Bharat recalls that the ...

When the infection is so severe that the lungs are melting, they’re irrecoverably damaged," said thoracic surgeon Ankit Bharat.

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.

Man was kept alive on artificial lung for two days while he waited for double transplant - Only about 150 to 200 lung transplants are carried out in the UK each year and it can be hard to find a suita ...