Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy is a pulmonary lobectomy procedure ... anesthesia using a special endotracheal tube that allows intentional collapse of the lung which is operated on. The ...

Lung transplant involves the removal of the damaged lung and replacement with a new healthy organ. To do the surgery, the doctor makes a cut in your side about 6 inches below your armpit. This cut is ...

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 ...