The US Food and Drug Administration approved a panel-track PMA supplement for TransMedics Inc.’s Organ Care System (OCS) Lung, allowing it to be used for the preservation of donor lungs that would be unacceptable for transplantation with standard cold static preservation.
OCS Lung combines perfusion, ventilation and monitoring systems into a single portable device that can maintain donated lungs in a near-physiologic state, giving transplant physicians time to assess and improve...