DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I was reading about lung restoration and innovation in the field of lung transplantation. Can you share more about this? ANSWER: Over the past several years, devices outside the body ...
What if scientists could build a realistic model of the human lung, not full-sized, but grown in the lab from living cells?
The first successful human transplant of a kidney converted from blood type A to universal type O used special enzymes ...
For people who need a lung transplant, the wait is often prolonged by the frustrating fact that most donor organs have to be discarded: Only 20% of donated lungs meet medical criteria for ...