Twenty years of lung preservation--a review.
Preservation of the lung remains a major challenge and hinders the development of distant lung and heart-lung block procurement, limiting the clinical application of these modalities. The progress made in the field of lung preservation is reviewed and the many unanswered problems are presented here.
D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000502:physiology; D016040:Lung Transplantation; D009926:Organ Preservation / Q000379:methods*