Cancer patient receives innovative 'lungs in the fridge' double transplant at Northwestern Medicine
The medical world is celebrating two innovative technologies Northwestern Medicine is using to help give patients a new ...
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Mansfield man undergoes double lung transplant with groundbreaking 'lungs in a fridge' technology
The new “lungs in a fridge" tech can keep the lungs intact for up to 18 hours, compared to about four hours when kept on it.
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How Northwestern Medicine performed a record number of lung transplants last year — WGN Evening News
Medical advances allowed doctors to perform a record 148 transplants in 2024 — the most in the program’s 10-year history — and reduced the median wait time for a transplant to just four days.