With this box, Lung grafts Still Breathing During Saved
Human organs to be transplanted can not wait too long outside the human body. And so the donor, everything was in a hurry. Physicians and patients should be immediately set up operations before the organ is damaged.
Today, technology has made things a lot easier. Heart and lungs, as well as other transplanted organs such as kidney and liver, can be stored longer with a special tool. Remarkably, during storage of the organ can keep working. The heart still beating, the lungs can still breathe.
Special tool in the form of a magic box called the Organ Care System was created by scientists from TransMedics, a company based in Massachusetts. The principle is to simulate the function of the organ systems, just like in the human body.
In this case also, the blood of the donor flows to maintain organ function is still running. Oxygen circulation is maintained, even the liver can still produce bile and kidney can produce urine while being stored in this magic box.
The surgeon in Phoenix recently utilize this cutting-edge technology in a lung transplant operation. Success was published through a report in Al Jazeera America.
"The sound of the breathing lungs mechanically very surreal," said Shini Somara, Al Jazeera's correspondent Americans who witnessed the operation, as quoted by the Daily Mail.
With the traditional way of cooling, transplant generally only lasts between 5-9 hours. Even the heart can only last between 3-8 hours. However, with this tool, the heart and lungs can be stored up to 10-11 hours, or even longer.
Source : Daily Mail
Today, technology has made things a lot easier. Heart and lungs, as well as other transplanted organs such as kidney and liver, can be stored longer with a special tool. Remarkably, during storage of the organ can keep working. The heart still beating, the lungs can still breathe.
Special tool in the form of a magic box called the Organ Care System was created by scientists from TransMedics, a company based in Massachusetts. The principle is to simulate the function of the organ systems, just like in the human body.
In this case also, the blood of the donor flows to maintain organ function is still running. Oxygen circulation is maintained, even the liver can still produce bile and kidney can produce urine while being stored in this magic box.
The surgeon in Phoenix recently utilize this cutting-edge technology in a lung transplant operation. Success was published through a report in Al Jazeera America.
"The sound of the breathing lungs mechanically very surreal," said Shini Somara, Al Jazeera's correspondent Americans who witnessed the operation, as quoted by the Daily Mail.
With the traditional way of cooling, transplant generally only lasts between 5-9 hours. Even the heart can only last between 3-8 hours. However, with this tool, the heart and lungs can be stored up to 10-11 hours, or even longer.
Source : Daily Mail
