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  • Reconditioned lungs used in UK transplant


    Merv Sheppard's Transplant Network — Authority Authority: 124
    Its gratifying to see that more centers, such as the Freeman Hospital in the UK, are using the Ex-vivo (outside the body) Lung Perfusion System that allows surgeons the opportunity to assess and treat injured donor lungs, while they are outside the body, to make them suitable for transplantation. Read my earlier post ...
    1 day ago

  • Portable artificial lung keeps patient alive for transplant


    Merv Sheppard's Transplant Network — Authority Authority: 124
    In addition to this article about bridge-to-transplant devices, also read my previous post about how surgeons at Toronto General Hospital (TGH) used the Novalung to save the life of a 16-year-old girl. The German-made machine is hooked up to both of the patients legs. Blood is pumped from one leg and into a machine ...
    3 days ago

  • Controversial South African Ex-minister Dies of Lung Ailment


    Net News Publisher — Authority Authority: 153
    Following an announcement about the death of former Minister of Health, Manto Tshabalala Msimang, on Wednesday evening, her political allies on Thursday offered praises, just as her many detractors muted their criticism and offered condolences to her family instead. As minister of health she contributed effectively ...
    4 days ago

  • British patient given resuscitated lungs


    Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority Authority: 966
    A British patient has undergone a pioneering lung transplant using damaged donor lungs that were "resuscitated" in a laboratory to make them suitable for use.
    6 days ago

  • First UK patient receives ‘reconditioned’ lungs in pioneering surgery


    Thaindian News — Authority Authority: 731
    London, Dec 16 (ANI): A British man has been given unusable donor lungs that were ‘reconditioned’ to make them suitable for use.Scientists have hailed the pioneering operation as having the potential to address Britain’s shortage of donor organs.James Finlayson, 24, became the first Briton to undergo the ...
    6 days ago

  • The meeting


    breathinstephen.com — Authority Authority: 116
    Before I begin, let me preface this post by saying that I haven’t made up my mind as to whether I would even want lung transplant surgery, should it ever get to that point. I wanted however, to see what some of my Pulmonologists views were on this subject, and to get a feel for what kind of support I would have in ...
    1 week ago

  • British mom waiting for lung transplant given VIP shopping trip in limo


    Merv Sheppard's Transplant Network — Authority Authority: 124
    A1 Limos donate hummer limo trip to London for poorly mother and her family by Carl Wheeler LimoBroker News A mother of two from Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, who is waiting for a double lung transplant, is about to receive the VIP treatment with a hummer limo shopping trip to London. A local ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Surprise lung transplant gives mom renewed hope


    Merv Sheppard's Transplant Network — Authority Authority: 124
    By BARBARA TURNBULL Staff Reporter - The Toronto Star Healthzone.ca "Be brave. Even when you are scared. Be Brave. Whatever it is, you can do it. Manage it. Overcome it." – Natalia Ritchie Just weeks ago, John Boguslawski was stoically waiting for his sister Natalia Ritchie, 30, to die of cystic ...
    4 weeks ago

  • The SARP experience


    breathinstephen.com — Authority Authority: 116
    Welcome to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the Severe Asthma Research Program (I just noticed what it says on the pillow) Well, the trip was a success and the project went off without a hitch. However, the results that emerged from some of the studies they did on me , are not so good. First with the good ...
    4 weeks ago

  • Argentine singer recovering after heart, lung transplant


    Thaindian News — Authority Authority: 731
    Buenos Aires, Nov 22 (EFE) Argentine singer-songwriter and actor Sandro is “stable” and recovering “favourably” from the complex surgery of a heart and lung transplant, doctors have said.“Like any other human being he deserves the chance to live that we have given him. He came here with serious multi-organ ...
    4 weeks ago

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