Accepted Article This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/tri.12295 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Received Date : 28-Oct-2013 Revised Date : 22-Nov-2013 Accepted Date : 24-Feb-2014 Article type : Original Article Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion to Improve Donor Lung Function and Increase the Number of Organs Available for Transplantation Franco Valenza MD 1,2 , Lorenzo Rosso MD 3 , Silvia Coppola MD 1 , Sara Froio MD 1 , Alessandro Palleschi MD 3 , Davide Tosi MD 3 , Paolo Mendogni 3 , Valentina Salice MD 1 , Giulia Maria Ruggeri MD 1 , Jacopo Fumagalli MD 1 , Alessandro Villa MD 1 , Mario Nosotti MD 3,2 , Luigi Santambrogio MD 3,2 and Luciano Gattinoni MD, FRCP 1, 2 . 1 Dipartimento di Anestesia Rianimazione (Intensiva e Subintensiva) e Terapia del dolore, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda–Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy. 2 Dipartimento di Fisiopatologica Medico-Chirurgica e dei Trapianti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. 3 Unità Operativa di Chirurgia Toracica; Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda–Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy. Authorship Contributed to the design and implementation of the EVLP program: FV, LR, LS, LG. Contributed to lung procurement: AP, DT, PM. Contributed to running the EVLP procedures: FV, LR, SC, SF. Contributed to data collection: GMR, JF, AV, MN. Contributed to data analysis: FV, VS, LR, MN. Contributed to manuscript writing: FV, VS, LG. Funding sources This study was funded by Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda–Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy and by Regione Lombardia. A contribution was also provided by Lega Lombarda Fibrosi Cistica.