Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy is a pulmonary lobectomy procedure that is performed by a ... The procedure is performed with general anesthesia using a special endotracheal tube that allows ...

In the past, the only treatment would have been a full lung transplant ... and pumping all the blood in the body into a vat in the operating theatre. Without the blood flowing, they are able ...

The researchers then replaced the left lung of each pig with the bioengineered version. After surgery, Nichols’ team allowed one pig to survive for 10 hours, another for two weeks, a third for a ...