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A unique lung transplant procedure has arrived at Northwestern Medicine in downtown Chicago
A unique procedure at Northwestern could cut down long waiting lists for those in need of a lung transplant.
Nicknamed “lungs in a box,” the ex-vivo lung perfusion procedure allows donated lungs to be examined for hours at a time on a machine – after being extracted from the body. The organs are then hooked up to a machine that simulates the breathing of a human body.
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