The research on lung transplants being developed in Toronto CA. is one of the most exciting developments in transplant research in years.
Dr. Shaf Keshavjee, and his colleagues at the Toronto General Hospital created a bubble to place damaged lungs in. The lungs can keep breathing for 12 to 18 hours at normal body temperature.
The older method of working on the lungs, while they were still in the body had to be completed within 6 hours, or the lungs would die.
The new method also gives hope for patients waiting for transplants such as livers, kidneys or heart.
Currently, only 10 …read more