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.

A critically ill 33-year-old man survived an almost unimaginable scenario—living for 48 hours without lungs—thanks to a groundbreaking surgical approach. After a severe flu-triggered infection ...

Humans can’t live without lungs. But Ankit Bharat’s patient did for 48 hours. Reporting January 29 in the Cell Press journal Med, surgeons describe how they removed a patient’s infected lungs and ...

A patient who developed a life-threatening condition managed to live without lungs for two days – thanks to surgeons who built him an artificial one. The 33-year-old man developed acute respiratory ...

Researchers reported a novel "total artificial lung" approach to extracorporeal support for a patient who needed bilateral lung transplantation due to infection. Similar cases have been reported with ...

In a remarkable act of life preservation, surgeons were able to keep a critically ill man alive for 48 hours without a pair of lungs, while he waited for a double lung transplant – a radical approach ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

A patient who developed a life-threatening condition managed to live without lungs for two days – thanks to surgeons who built him an artificial one. The 33-year-old man developed acute respiratory ...

ST. LOUIS — When 2-year-old Owen Stark arrived at St. Louis Children's Hospital, he wasn't given much chance for survival. The little boy had collapsed at a store, and his heart and lungs were ...