Have you or someone you know needed a transplant? What developments in this field are you most excited about?
SciAm reporter Jackie Flynn Mogensen recently wrote about an astonishing advance in transplant science: doctors kept a man alive with a pair of artificial lungs until he could get a lung transplant. The man had a life-threatening influenza infection and was too sick to get a transplant right away, so the device bought them some time until he was well enough to receive one. What do you think about this development and how it fits in with other recent advances in the field of organ transplantation?
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This new technology could have perhaps saved my brother's life, or given him a fighting chance to recover. He passed in 2018 due to a serious streptococcus infection and sepsis that cut his O2 levels to harmfully low levels. We will never know.
