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From: Inactivating hepatitis C virus in donor lungs using light therapies during normothermic ex vivo lung perfusion

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The customized illumination device and its usage during ex-vivo lung perfusion (EVLP). a The apparatus depicted with a germicidal UVC lamp, which was designed to be used during EVLP allocated in sequence with other EVLP components, in a closed system. Mounted on a cylindric tube, the light source is inserted into a tubular quartz tube, surrounded by an opaque PVC tube, that prevents light from escaping from the illuminated cavity. b The EVLP system with the illumination device (irradiator). The lungs are placed into a specific organ chamber. The EVLP circuit is composed of a hard-shell reservoir, a leucocyte filter, a membrane oxygenator/heater and a centrifugal pump. The illumination device, conceived to per part of the EVLP circuit, interpolates the centrifugal pump and the pulmonary artery cannula. During EVLP, the perfusate is treated when illuminated in 360° during its passage

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