Project for the Lega Italian Fibrosi (Lazio branch)<\/p>"},"content":{"rendered":"
The \u201cDa vita a qualit\u00e0 di vita\u201d (Give Life to Quality of Life) project, which was supported by the Fondazione Terzo Pilastro, led to the purchase of an apparatus that keeps lungs, donated from beating heart cadavers, alive outside of the body. These lungs can then be tested and examined for transplant in patients affected by, in this case, cystic fibrosis, when the disease reaches levels for which a transplant becomes indispensable. The apparatus, called Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP), reconditions lungs and makes usable those that would not be otherwise due to pathologies, such as edema, endobronchial secretions, or the presence of fluids. This allows for a greater number of transplants using organs that, as mentioned, would not have been transplantable.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Il progetto denominato ?Da vita a qualità di vita? è stato sostenuto dalla Fondazione per l?acquisto di un dispositivo rigeneratore di polmoni, quelli da trapiantare, necessariamente, agli affetti da fibrosi cistica quando la patologia raggiunge livelli tali da renderlo indispensabile. Il dispositivo, denominato EVLP Ex vivo lung perfusion ricondiziona organi provenienti da deceduti cerebralmente ma…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20489,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"pj-categs":[41,42],"pj-tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n