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

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

The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants.

Two years later, he's alive and well.

Discover how a surgical team engineered an improvised artificial lung system that kept a man alive for 48 hours without lungs ...

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

In a remarkable act of life preservation, surgeons were able to keep a critically ill man alive for 48 hours without a pair ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I was reading about lung restoration and innovation in the field of lung transplantation. Can you share more about this? ANSWER: Over the past several years, devices outside the body ...

It's a little-known twist of nature - your lungs can live on for a while after you die. The air left inside keeps them from deteriorating right away as other organs do. An innovative experiment now ...

Transplanting any organ is, unsurprisingly, a complicated process, but lungs are particularly vulnerable to damage before being implanted. Now, researchers at Columbia Engineering and Vanderbilt ...