UM-Bot Posted December 29, 2008 #1 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Canadian medi-boffins have successfully trialled a method of keeping human lungs alive outside the body. They say that this will enable them to offer "reconditioned" lungs for transplant operations. The idea is that often transplant docs have some lungs on hand, and people needing their present ones replaced, but the available lungs aren't in good enough nick to be used. But now, with the Toronto XVIVO Lung Perfusion System, a set of lungs can be whipped out of the donor and put into a "protective, transparent bubble-like chamber". Here they are hooked up to a "pump, ventilator and filters through which flow oxygen, nutrients and a special solution" and kept at human body temperature.View: Full Article | Source: The Register Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt_Ripley Posted December 29, 2008 #2 Share Posted December 29, 2008 absolutely wild ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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