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

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

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago saved the life of young man using a total artificial lung that sustained him until he could receive a transplant.

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

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

The patient was able to stay alive without the presence of any lungs for 48 hours before receiving a double transplant.

In 2023 thoracic surgeon Ankit Bharat was working at Northwestern Memorial Hospital when he was drafted to help a 33-year-old ...

The procedure, led by Dr Ankit Bharat, thoracic surgeon at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, ...

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.

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

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A rescue puppy from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home is to become one of only a handful of dogs in the world able to detect a multi ...