Nature Communications (May 2019)

Regeneration of severely damaged lungs using an interventional cross-circulation platform

  • Brandon A. Guenthart,
  • John D. O’Neill,
  • Jinho Kim,
  • Dawn Queen,
  • Scott Chicotka,
  • Kenmond Fung,
  • Michael Simpson,
  • Rachel Donocoff,
  • Michael Salna,
  • Charles C. Marboe,
  • Katherine Cunningham,
  • Susan P. Halligan,
  • Holly M. Wobma,
  • Ahmed E. Hozain,
  • Alexander Romanov,
  • Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic,
  • Matthew Bacchetta

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09908-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Gastric aspiration severely injures donor lungs, frequently making them unacceptable for transplantation. Here the authors show that an interventional cross-circulation platform enables the regeneration of severely damaged lungs in a swine model of gastric aspiration injury.