For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...

A new artificial lung system might keep people without lungs alive for weeks. Like real lungs, tubes and pumps oxygenate ...

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

Surgeons report a case in which artificial lungs kept a man alive for 48 hours after both lungs were removed, allowing time for a transplant.

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago saved the life of young man using a total artificial lung that sustained him until he could receive a transplant.

The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants.

U.S. medical staff achieved an unprecedented feat by completely removing both lungs of a man in his 30s whose lung function ...

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

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Although Houston’s Dr. Denton A. Cooley has transplanted more human hearts than any other surgeon, he still finds them in short supply. So last week he implanted the world’s first completely ...