Human organ repair centers: Fact or fiction?

Feature Editor Note—Although lung transplantation continues to evolve with the refinement of surgical techniques and improvements in organ preservation, there continues to be a critical shortage of donor lungs available, and a substantial number of donor lungs are discarded due to questionable quality. The University of Toronto group has published extensively on the use of ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) to evaluate marginal donor lungs, demonstrating that many of these lungs can be successfully transplanted.