At Indiana Donor Network, functionality of donated lungs initially rejected for transplantation was improved, resulting ...

On January 29, 2026, the Indiana Donor Network became the first organ recovery organization in the nation to successfully use an in-house mechanical lung perfusion system to save a marginal organ that ...

Ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) is a technique that allows for donor lungs to be maintained, assessed, and potentially reconditioned outside of the body before transplantation. The lungs are connected ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The use of normothermic regional perfusion could injure donor lungs meant for transplantation. More research is ...

April 28, 2010 (Chicago, Illinois) — Assessment and reconditioning of extended or initially rejected donor lungs using ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) is safe and leads to favorable outcomes after ...

In the first human retrospective study, CytoSorb and ex vivo lung perfusion prior to lung transplant increased in-hospital and one-year survival This same “enhanced lung rest” concept has carried over ...

Re-perfusing the lungs of an organ donor after the heart has irreversibly stopped beating with a technique called normothermic regional perfusion (TA-NRP) could potentially increase the number of ...

In a Northwestern Medicine first, surgeons used their "lungs in a box" perfusion to treat blood clots in a pair of donor lungs before transplanting them into a patient with Stage 4 lung cancer. The ...

The team at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine’s Canning Thoracic Institute performed 148 lung transplants in 2024, more than any transplant center in the U.S., in part due to its embrace of an ...

A national study found that more lungs were offered for transplantation from donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors than expected. Simultaneous heart donation with use of normothermic regional ...