baby using artificial lung

4-week-old baby using artificial lung

A newborn baby from Michigan is being kept alive with an artificial lung, it's the first of it's kind. 4-week-old Ronan Bush haas a rare congenital disease that prevetns his blood from flowing properly through his lungs. He needs 2 lung transplants.

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4-week-old baby needs lung transplant

4-week-old baby needs lung transplant

First Totally Artificial Windpipe

In a milestone for the fast-evolving field of tissue engineering, a 36-year-old geology student from Africa is breathing through a synthetic windpipe created in a laboratory from plastic and his own bone marrow cells.

Andemariam Teklesenbet Beyene was discharged today from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, one day short of a month since he had his cancerous windpipe replaced with the custom-made spare part.

"It's working like a normal windpipe," surgeon Paolo Macchiarini told Shots. "He's able to cough. He's able to expel his secretions. He's breathing normally. He has the sensation he's breathing."


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Info on the NovaLung company and their lung products

Info on the NovaLung company and their lung products

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Solutions for Lung Failure

 Novalung‘s mission is to create new solutions for the treatment of lung failure with innovative artificial lungs that “breathe” outside the patient’s body. The pioneering task is to work with leading clinicians around the world to develop new therapies to replace damaging invasive mechanical ventilation.

Novalung GmbH was founded in Hechingen (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) in 2003 through the fusion of leading German and American technologies in the field of artificial lungs and is now active throughout the world. From the outset Novalung has focused on high-quality development and production “Made in Germany“.  Cutting-edge technologies are employed in Novalung’s medtech production facility in the manufacture in particular of the iLA Membrane Ventilator® and NovaPort® vascular access cannulas, both of which have been used to help treat thousands of patients.

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A artificial lung in humans ??

First experience with a paracorporeal artificial lung in humans.

Camboni D, Philipp A, Arlt M, Pfeiffer M, Hilker M, Schmid C.

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Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Regensburg, Germany. dcamboni@arcor.de

Abstract

Lung transplantation is the only treatment option for patients suffering form end-stage respiratory failure. To date, no mechanical device is available to support patients on the waiting list up to months. Here, we summarize our experience with our first two patients, who were supported with a paracorporeal artificial lung (PAL) placed in parallel to the pulmonary circulation with connection to the pulmonary artery and to the left atrium. A low resistance membrane oxygenator (iLA, Novalung, Hirrlingen, Germany) was attached in both patients. Our first patient suffering from a pulmonary veno-occlusive disease was supported for 18 days until he died due to severe sepsis. Our second patient with a primary pulmonary hypertension of unknown origin was supported 62 days followed by successful lung transplantation.
 In conclusion, the experience obtained with these first two patients under PAL encourages further studies and introduction of this promising concept into clinical practice.

PMID: 19282751 [PubMed - indexed

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U.S. COPD Coalition's Semi-Annual Business Meeting

Artificial Lung amrket expands due to innovations

Innovation Expands Artificial Lung Market

Medtech Insight -- Advances in extracorporeal lung support devices are expanding the market for artificial lungs and are helping to extend and save the lives of patients with acute and chronic pulmonary disease.

 At the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' annual meeting held in San Diego in January, researchers discussed new low-flow percutaneous catheters, advances in low-resistance membrane oxygenators, and improvements in pump designs that are enabling simpler, less invasive, and more portable solutions for treating patients with respiratory failure.

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By Anne Staylor, Medtech Insight 4/1/2011