Predictors of renal function following lung or heart-lung transplantation
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Clamshell or sternotomy for double lung or heart-lung transplantation?
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of either incision on the lungs and chest wall. METHODS Ninety-two double lung (DLT) or heart-lung (HLT) transplantations were done since January 1990. There were 22 (24%) hospital deaths, leaving 70 patients with complete data for evaluation. We did 38 DLT and 32 HLT for end-stage chronic respiratory failure (n = 22) and primary (n = 34) or secondary (n = ...
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Twenty-six and twenty-four years have passed since the first successful human heart-lung transplantation and the first successful human lung transplantation. Since then over 2,500 heart-lung transplant and 22,000 lung transplant procedures have been performed worldwide. Lung and heart-lung transplantation have become established therapies for patients with advanced lung disease. The annual volu...
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In this study the transplantation group of La Pitié Hospital, Paris, review heart-lung transplantation on the basis of data from the literature and of their own experience. Successively, the history, indications, pre-operative evaluation, donor selection, operative procedure with its immediate, mid-term and late complications, as well as treatment and post-operative follow-up are described.
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عنوان ژورنال: Kidney International
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0085-2538
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2002.00361.x