If we had a policy that said we did not use the lungs of those who had smoked, then the number of lung transplants carried out would have been significantly lower.
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At present four out of five donor lungs are not used because they do not function adequately.
"The altitude for the heart and lungs is not a problem for the horses, " said vet Annina Widmer.
This is because Jodie's heart and lungs will not be able to take the strain of supporting her sister's body.
He added patients "know they may have the transplant cancelled because the lungs are not satisfactory in about 30% of cases".
He lived well and played sporadically, and finally succumbed to lung cancer at 52, surprised to find that it was lungs and not his liver that gave out first.
One of these, Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, worked for more than 12 hours to separate the babies, but Hope's lungs were not sufficiently strong to support her without her twin, and she died shortly after the operation.
Moreover, he says, the MEDAL study takes into account not only heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular events, but also clots in the veins and lungs, which might not be the result of Cox-2 drugs at all.
In his hospital ward, there were only about seven iron lungs -- not enough to go around.
Birds, which have more rigid and robust lungs, do not undergo the same trauma from a sudden drop in pressure.
It is not necessary to have two lungs for survival, similar to patients who can survive with only 1 kidney.
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Nonetheless, it is an attractive idea because it would have other benefits (soot is bad for people's lungs) and would not require the wholesale rejigging of energy production which reducing CO2 emissions implies.
Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger.
When I go, I have a feeling it will be because of the lungs or the bowels and not the heart after all.
Scientists believe that the current strain is transmitted through droplets coughed out of the lungs, but are still not certain about other possible routes of transmission.
For example, tens of thousands of asbestos claimants probably have lungs injured from smoking, not asbestos--and physicians were accused of deliberately fiddling with the controls to make echocardiograms look like heart-valve damage to collect more money from the fen-phen trust.
For example, if a patient's kidneys were not functioning or fluid was collecting in their lungs then to continue a saline drip might cause a more unpleasant death.
This is true of the flu, hepatitis and AIDS. With the avian flu, we've modeled the virus on supercomputers, and we think we understand why it binds deep in the lungs--it's not communicable--you don't cough it up.
Unlike the exaggerated claims of so many Bush critics, the memos make clear that water was not actually expected to enter the detainee's lungs, and that measures were put in place to prevent complications if this did happen and to ensure that the individual did not develop respiratory distress.
Twenty-two years ago Francis Collins, who would go on to head the Human Genome Project and run the National Institutes of Health, was part of a team that found the gene that, when mutated, caused cystic fibrosis, a deadly childhood disease in which the lungs fill with mucus and the pancreas does not make digestive enzymes.
Parks are the lungs of the city and we need trees, not bare and barren flowerbeds.
And some surgeons think they have found a way to make that dream come true: by husbanding pigs not for their chops but for their hearts, livers, lungs and even their neurons.
Because her donor lungs are free of the CF gene, they do not fill with sticky mucus.
Last week, Mr Mandela had fluid drained from his lungs at the hospital, the name of which has not been disclosed.
But Dr Joseph Gilhooly, a neonatalogist at Oregon Health and Science University in the US which has a water birth programme, said that babies who do not get enough oxygen during childbirth may gasp for air, risking allowing water to enter their lungs.
One more thing: if the best news we're getting on the environmental front is stick-on solar fans, it's sad we're not seeing the same emphasis on making cars, trucks and SUVs that are kinder to the lungs of millions stuck gasping at the crosswalk.
For instance, if hiccups were supposed to keep fluid out of the lungs, it would make more sense for them to involve a cough-like response, not a breath inwards.
It's best not to vacuum or sweep, because that can push hantavirus particles into the air, where they can enter the lungs.
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