Researchers evaluate the effectiveness of a novel extracorporeal total artificial lung system to enable bilateral pneumonectomy in patients with severe ARDS.

Pulmonary embolism (PE) remains a major cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality worldwide. It occurs when thrombotic material—most often ...

Researchers suggest "total artificial lung" approach might make double-lung transplant saf ...

For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...

Day to day, we exist in our bodies without thinking much about them. We wake up, eat, move around, and fall asleep again, all ...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a serious condition in which there is abnormally high pressure in the blood vessels between the lungs and the heart. PH has a high mortality rate if untreated.

Describes the nature of a clinical study. Types include: Observational study — observes people and measures outcomes without affecting results. Interventional study (clinical trial) — studies new ...

Background Up to half of patients with infective endocarditis (IE) require cardiac surgery. Although anaemia is common, its ...

Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, ...