When the infection is so severe that the lungs are melting, they’re irrecoverably damaged," said thoracic surgeon Ankit ...

Pulmonary function tests are a group of noninvasive breathing tests that measure how much air your lungs can hold, how quickly you can move air in and out and how efficiently your lungs transfer ...

Northwestern total artificial lung system kept a patient alive for 48 hours after lung removal before transplant, improving ...

Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.

In 2023 thoracic surgeon Ankit Bharat was working at Northwestern Memorial Hospital when he was drafted to help a 33-year-old ...

Conventionally, patients with ARDS do not get transplants because doctors hope that with the right treatment and support, the ...

The team's total artificial lung system, or TAL, bought the man precious time until a double lung transplant was viable.

A new artificial lung system might keep people without lungs alive for weeks. Like real lungs, tubes and pumps oxygenate ...

The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants.

NICE has recommended dupilumab for adults with uncontrolled COPD and raised eosinophils, citing fewer exacerbations and ...

A retrospective study finds that more than one third of patients with stage I-IIIA non-small cell lung cancer do not undergo ...

Abnormally high levels of lung-injury biomarkers in the blood after COVID-19 infection may flag patients at risk for ongoing ...