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

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

“We have to replace the old lungs — which are reversed in the body — with new lungs from a donor who has a typical or normal placement,” he said. “Because the new lungs need to fit into a chest cavity ...

STORY: Meet Cheryl Mehrkar–– the world’s first recipient of a fully robotic double lung transplant. The procedure builds on other minimally invasive procedures, and is aimed at speeding up the healing ...

A CT scan of healthy lungs looks typical in size with no inflammation, allowing the diaphragm to dome. Lungs with emphysema can look overinflated, with muscle loss, making the diaphragm misshapen. The ...

(CBSDFW.COM) - Texas trauma surgeon Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall says it's a rarity that any of her COVID-19 patients X-rays come back without dense scarring. In one of her Twitter posts, she says ...

Fifty-year-old psychologist Dennis Deer’s lungs were failing, scarred by a rare inflammatory condition called polymyositis. Despite carrying supplemental oxygen, the Cook County Commissioner for the ...