To allow a chance for survival, that source of infection had to go. Both lungs were removed and the patient switched to ECMO ...

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

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

U.S. medical staff achieved an unprecedented feat by completely removing both lungs of a man in his 30s whose lung function ...

A new artificial lung system might keep people without lungs alive for weeks. Like real lungs, tubes and pumps oxygenate ...

The team's total artificial lung system, or TAL, bought the man precious time until a double lung transplant was viable.

Novel artificial lungs could help keep people whose lungs no longer function alive long enough to get an organ transplant ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Odds for survival on ECMO to transplant went down if the patient had an older age at listing. Survival did not ...