Editor’s note: This story includes graphic video of the artificial lung system at the end. Hit play to uncensor the video. Surgeons removed a man’s irreparably damaged lungs and kept him alive for 48 ...

Doctors in Chicago saved the life of a young Missouri man with a rare infection that had liquefied his lungs, hooking him up to what they have called a total artificial lung. The patient, whose name ...

Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago were able to keep a critically ill patient alive for 48 hours after removing both of his lungs, the hospital reported last week. The patient, a 33-year-old ...

A critically ill 33-year-old man survived an almost unimaginable scenario—living for 48 hours without lungs—thanks to a groundbreaking surgical approach. After a severe flu-triggered infection ...

Humans can’t live without lungs. But Ankit Bharat’s patient did for 48 hours. Reporting January 29 in the Cell Press journal Med, surgeons describe how they removed a patient’s infected lungs and ...

Gino Marcantonio has two things to be thankful for that helped save his life when he collapsed from a heart attack on Jan. 21 in his mother’s house. One is technology: Hartford Hospital’s ECMO on the ...

A patient who developed a life-threatening condition managed to live without lungs for two days – thanks to surgeons who built him an artificial one. The 33-year-old man developed acute respiratory ...

Humans can't live without lungs. But Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours. Reporting January 29 in the Cell Press journal Med, surgeons describe how they removed a patient's infected lungs and ...