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In Astounding Test, Scientists Revive Damaged Lungs for Transplant
- tomcam 6y agoThe lead (or lede, if you will) is brilliant: > The six lungs were taken from brain-dead patients and offered to transplant surgeons. But at major medical centers, one surgeon after another refused the organs. > They were damaged, swollen and soggy with fluid. Like 80 percent of lungs offered for transplant, these were just too far gone for the operation. > But researchers at Columbia and Vanderbilt saw an opportunity. They had been working for eight years on a system to restore damaged lungs.
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