Researchers Victor E. Lubach, PhD, and Irving Kron, MD, received the grants to support projects and research that may increase the number of lungs available for transplant, create a way to detect post-transplant complications, prevent lung rejection and hinder lung ischemia reperfusion injuries, which occur when oxygen supply to the lung is compromised.
“We envision UVA as eventually becoming a lung rehab center where donor lungs would arrive to undergo [ex vivo lung perfusion] and, if they look great, they can be sent out to the appropriate hospital for transplant,” Dr. Laubach, who is collaborating on the project with Dr. Kron, a UVA transplant surgeon, told NewsMedical.net.
EVLP is the process of assessing and preparing donor lungs outside of a body prior to transplant surgery.
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