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Study shows success in double lung transplant for severe COVID-19
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Florida-Shands lung transplant team, in collaboration with researchers around the world, has found that double lung transplantation can benefit certain patients with severe respiratory problems as a result of COVID-19.
The historic multi-institutional study focused on the potential outcomes for patients whose lungs never recovered from COVID, even though the rest of their organs were still functioning.
“We’re talking about talking about two three four five six months out into respiratory failure with no recovery and now signs of advanced pulmonary disease so we did not even know if it was possible to offer a transplant for these patients, we didn’t know if there was a possibility so this is where this study brings light showing that yes it’s possible and the early outcomes are favorable,” said Dr. Tiago Machua, Director of the Lung Transplant P
Heart in a Box Technology Expands Heart Transplant Window
Smidt Heart Institute uses Transmedics Organ Care System (OCS) to increase the geographic area of service to enable more organ transplants
The Transmedics Organ Care System (OCS) Heart, or “Heart in a Box,” enables transplant surgeons to travel to much farther destinations to procure transplant hearts by acting as a miniature intensive care unit that keeps the heart alive.
April 5, 2021 Smidt Heart Institute transplant surgeons Dominic Emerson, M.D., and Pedro Catarino, M.D. know how to be spontaneous. At any given moment, they can get the call that a donor heart or lungs are available, requiring them to quickly board a private aircraft to procure the vital organs. But until recently, those flights were quick jaunts lasting no more than four hours the time a donor heart can survive on ice. Now that is all changing, thanks to a medical device called the Transmedics Organ Care System (OCS) Heart, or “Heart in a Box
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