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Post by sandy07 on Jun 27, 2013 7:46:40 GMT -5
Transporting slightly damaged lungs from other centres, repairing them and transplanting them is now being done out of Edmonton as well. It means they are able to use more lungs and help more people. It was just on our news. This is all I could find right now.
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A lung transplant was his only hope. When a donor was found, Padilla learned he’d make history by being the first man in the U.S. to get donor lungs that were still breathing.
“We can keep a human organ alive outside of a human body,” Abbas Ardehali, MD, FACS, Director of the UCLA Heart, Lung, and Heart-Lung Transplant Programs at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, told Ivanhoe.
The lungs are put in a high-tech box where they are revived to a warm, breathing state. A machine circulates blood and oxygen through it, allowing the lungs to be outside of the body for eight hours or possibly more.
“As far as the organ is concerned, it still feels like it is in a human body because it is still breathing,” Dr. Ardehali said.
Today, Fernando is healthy and back in the driver’s seat!
Before this invention, the traditional way to keep lungs was on ice in a cooler. The breathing lung device follows on the heels of heart in a box technology, which delivers donor hearts in a similar manner. Experts believe other such donor organs will soon use similar devices.
I took out the link. Maybe something better is out there but I couldn't find anything yet.
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Post by jim on Jun 27, 2013 7:49:35 GMT -5
Hi Sandy07, thanks for posting this, but the link didn't work for me.
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Post by jim on Jun 27, 2013 7:54:06 GMT -5
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Post by sandy07 on Jun 27, 2013 7:58:20 GMT -5
Yes Jim....thanks.
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Post by jim on Jun 27, 2013 8:01:27 GMT -5
My pleasure Sandy, not your fault the link didn't work and thanks again for sharing. bighug[1]
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Post by Blossom/Jackie W. on Jun 27, 2013 10:13:53 GMT -5
You know.... I heard about them doing that (with the heart) awhile back (even watched a piece on TV) and I have to say at the time I thought.... well; why wouldn't they? And with lungs?
It just made sense to keep organs warm, oxygenated etc. Less failure problems I think. Anyway; thanks Sandy.... interesting piece. I'll add that to the COPD News this weekend.
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