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Organ transplantation: Lung repair via cross-circulation

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Extracorporeal cross-circulation between lungs enables the extended support of recipient lungs and the recovery of injured lungs in a swine model.

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Figure 1: Cross-circulation approach between a donor and a recipient lung.

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  1. Leonidas Tapias and Harald C. Ott are at the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.,

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  2. Harald C. Ott is also at the Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA and at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02138, USA.,

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Tapias, L., Ott, H. Organ transplantation: Lung repair via cross-circulation. Nat Biomed Eng 1, 0052 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-017-0052

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