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UK’s first lung transplant using new machine which ‘reconditions’ donor organs (BBC Look East)

A man from Northampton has become the first person in the UK to receive a double-lung transplant using a new machine that could improve the number of lungs available for donation and benefit more patients currently waiting for a lifesaving lung transplant. Daniel Evans-Smith (49) received his transplant at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge where a surgical team used a technique called ex-vivo lung perfusion (EVLP). This takes donated lungs which are initially considered marginally acceptable or marginally unacceptable for transplant, reconditions them outside the body in a special machine - the XPSTM system from XVIVO - and can make them suitable for donation.