Living without lungs for six days saves woman’s life

In what’s believed to be a world first, Canadian doctors removed the severely infected lungs from a dying woman, keeping her alive without them for six days, so that she could recover enough to receive a life-saving lung transplant.Thoracic surgeons at Toronto General Hospital (TGH), part of the University Health Network (UNH), performed the procedure on 33-year-old Melissa Benoit.“This was bold and very challenging, but Melissa was dying before our eyes,” Dr. Shaf Keshavjee, s