News tagged with donor lungs

New procedure promises to be a breakthrough in lung transplants

For decades, heart and lung transplant surgeons have followed a strict directive: Get the donor organ into the recipient as soon as possible.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Filtering donor blood reduces heart, lung complications

Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) have discovered yet another reason to filter the foreign white cells from donor blood: The resulting blood product is associated with dramatically fewer cardiopulmonary ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0