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Surgeons Kept a Man Alive With No Lungs For 48 Hours. Here's How.


In a remarkable act of life preservation, surgeons were able to keep a critically ill man alive for 48 hours without a pair of lungs, while he waited for a double lung transplant – a radical approach that could be used again for selected patients.

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