To survive, humans need at least one functioning lung to move oxygen into their blood. But for 48 hours, a 33-year-old man stayed alive with “artificial lungs” until he was well enough to get a ...

Sabari — editor-in-chief of CURE, assistant professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and director of High Reliability Organization Initiatives at Perlmutter Cancer Center — discussed how various ...

The team's total artificial lung system, or TAL, bought the man precious time until a double lung transplant was viable.

Pulmonary function tests are a group of noninvasive breathing tests that measure how much air your lungs can hold, how quickly you can move air in and out and how efficiently your lungs transfer ...

A novel external artificial lung system sustained an adult man for approximately 2 days after his irreversibly diseased lungs ...

When appropriate, surgery remains the most effective treatment option for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), including for patients with COPD, said Friedberg, professor in the Department of Thoracic ...

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

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have developed a tool that can identify airway mucus abnormalities in patients with ...

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

COVID has always been more than a bad bout of flu. As the pandemic’s acute waves recede, a different crisis is coming into ...

When the infection is so severe that the lungs are melting, they’re irrecoverably damaged," said thoracic surgeon Ankit Bharat.

Elevated fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide exposure in the early to middle weeks of pregnancy had links to lower ...