By: Katelyn Faulks
Pumping air and blood into lungs is a natural process for the human body, but a new device can keep lungs breathing during transplants.
Last week, University of Minnesota assistant surgery professor Dr. Gabriel Loor performed the first “breathing lung” transplant in the Midwest, operating on a 51-year-old man from Minnesota, according to a University press release.
“It was very fulfilling,” Loor said. “We were very relaxed when we were doing the transplant. … We felt we had as much time as needed to do the transplant.”