Bioengineering Lungs for Transplantation

Bioengineering for Organ Transplantation: Progress and Challenges.

Organ transplantation can offer a curative option for patients with end stage organ failure. Unfortunately the treatment is severely limited by the availability of donor organs. Organ bioengineering could provide a solution to the worldwide critical organ shortage. The majority of protocols to date have employed the use of decellularization-recellularization technology of naturally occurring ti...

Technical aspects of transplantation of preserved lungs.

Lungs from donation after cardiac death for transplantation.

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[Increasing the number of valid lungs for transplantation: a necessity].

c m s d x p El trasplante de órgano sólido es hoy en día un tratamiento consolidado frente a múltiples enfermedades. El trasplante de pulmón es en muchos casos una terapia salvadora y, en ocasiones, de rescate dado que es el único tratamiento posible en la insuficiencia respiratoria terminal. De entre los diferentes órganos sólidos que se trasplantan, el pulmón es uno de los menos habituales po...

Lobar transplantation, split lung transplantation and peripheral segmental resection--reliable procedures for downsizing donor lungs.

OBJECTIVES The increasing scarcity of donor lungs, especially for small and pediatric recipients has stimulated the development of new operative techniques, which allow larger lungs to be downsized for use in smaller recipients. This approach has only recently gained widespread use-especially for highly urgent recipients-however, it is still not considered a standard procedure. METHODS This r...