STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: For the first time lung transplantations have been performed in North America using the STEEN Solution™ technology. The transplantations were done in Toronto, Canada, and are part of the study that is being carried out as a basis for the application for sales approval in the USA and Canada. “It is very good to be able to observe that three further patients with lung disease have been able to be helped by means of this new technology, that it has been adopted by North America’s most experienced lung transplantation clinic and that the clinical study involving our unique product is now well underway,” says Magnus Nilsson, Vitrolife’s CEO.