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Machine could make more donated lungs suitable for transplant

Nice backs wider use of system that keeps organs alive outside the body, to help improve low transplantation rates A machine that keeps organs alive outside the body could save four in every five donated lungs that currently go to waste…

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Nice backs wider use of system that keeps organs alive outside the body, to help improve low transplantation rates A machine that keeps organs alive outside the body could save four in every five donated lungs that currently go to waste in England and Wales. The UK has one of the poorest lung transplantation rates in the world.

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