VIENNA — Some patients who had mild COVID-19 infection during the first wave of the pandemic and continued to experience postinfection symptoms for at least 12 months after infection present abnormal ...

In the first human retrospective study, CytoSorb and ex vivo lung perfusion prior to lung transplant increased in-hospital and one-year survival This same “enhanced lung rest” concept has carried over ...

Ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) is a technique that allows for donor lungs to be maintained, assessed, and potentially reconditioned outside of the body before transplantation. The lungs are connected ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The use of normothermic regional perfusion could injure donor lungs meant for transplantation. More research is ...

April 28, 2010 (Chicago, Illinois) — Assessment and reconditioning of extended or initially rejected donor lungs using ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) is safe and leads to favorable outcomes after ...

Re-perfusing the lungs of an organ donor after the heart has irreversibly stopped beating with a technique called normothermic regional perfusion (TA-NRP) could potentially increase the number of ...

In a Northwestern Medicine first, surgeons used their "lungs in a box" perfusion to treat blood clots in a pair of donor lungs before transplanting them into a patient with Stage 4 lung cancer. The ...

The lungs that Dr. Ankit Bharat took out of Tadd Crosslin, a 49-year-old father of twins, were marred with billions of cancer cells. They were “perhaps the most diseased that we’ve ever seen,” said ...

Temple’s leadership in lung transplantation is inseparable from its role as an academic institution conducting cutting-edge ...

PHOENIX — A man who literally struggled for every breath became the first patient to receive a lung transplant through a new initiative at the Phoenix Mayo Clinic. Craig Scherer celebrated his ...

A national study found that more lungs were offered for transplantation from donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors than expected. Simultaneous heart donation with use of normothermic regional ...