• Question: My cousin has 65 brosus she has bad lungs is there a way that u can make artificial lung and then she can get a replacement

    Asked by The exterminare to Eoin, Fiona, Ivor, Karl, Pattie on 5 Mar 2018.
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      Fiona Freeman answered on 5 Mar 2018:


      At the moment we cannot make an artificial lung there are machines that can help your cousins lung but at present the only treatment is a lung replacement. We hope with tissue engineering that some day we will be able to make a tissue engineered lung but we are still a long way off. I’m sorry I don’t have a better answer. I hope your cousin gets the lung replacement she needs soon.

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