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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-18T10:52:08.000Z",
  "site": "https://scitechdaily.com",
  "tags": [
    "Health",
    "Biomedical Engineering",
    "Cell Press",
    "Lungs",
    "Organ Transplant",
    "Surgery"
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  "textContent": "An artificial lung system sustained a patient for 48 hours without lungs, enabling a life-saving double transplant and highlighting the need for earlier intervention in severe ARDS. People cannot survive without lungs. Yet one of Ankit Bharat’s patients did so for two full days. In a study published in the Cell Press journal Med, surgeons [...]",
  "title": "Man Survives 48 Hours Without Lungs in a Medical First"
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