Breathing Life Into Injured Lungs: World-first Technique Will Expand Lung Donor Organ Pool
Friday, December 19, 2008 - 18:21
in Health & Medicine
For the first time in the world, transplant surgeons in Canada used a new technique to repair an injured donor lung that was unsuitable for transplant, and then successfully transplanted it into a patient. The use of this technique could significantly expand the lung donor organ pool and improve outcomes after transplantation.