More facilities are needed if the lungtransplant programme is to advance.
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The hospital hopes to carry out its first lungtransplant this summer.
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It occurs primarily in severely immunocompromised patients such as lungtransplant recipients.
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It is the commonest condition for which a lungtransplant is required.
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Objectives: Heart and lungtransplant recipients are at risk for invasive fungal infections.
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This is a case of atrial tachycardia 2 years after pulmonarytransplantation.
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We discuss arrhythmia mechanism found after pulmonarytransplantation and benefit of noninvasive electrocardiographic mapping for procedure planning.
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This case shows that long-term extracorporeal lung assist is a viable but demanding alternative for bridging patients to pulmonarytransplantation.
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Rapid advances have occurred involving indications and operative management that have allowed pulmonarytransplantation to be a viable option for an increasingly diverse patient population.
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Setting: Duke University Medical Center, PulmonaryTransplantation Program.
Uso de lung transplantation en inglés
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Methods: Single lungtransplantation was performed on two groups of domestic swine.
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This is the first successful pediatric heart- lungtransplantation carried out in Korea.
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We performed lungtransplantation in nine patients with Scleroderma related lung disease.
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We also found that flat chest severity significantly improved after lungtransplantation.
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A 51-year-old woman with dermatomyositis underwent lungtransplantation for acute interstitial pneumonitis.
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However, graft rejection is an important potential consequence after lungtransplantation.
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No severe adverse effects were observed after lungtransplantation in the BETA group.
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Methods: Twenty recipients who underwent successful bilateral living-donor lobar lungtransplantation were evaluated.
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We report the first case of Mycoplasma hominis periaortic abscess after heart- lungtransplantation.
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Therefore, it may serve as a sensitive indicator of AR in lungtransplantation.
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Patients: Seventy-one patients with end-stage pulmonary disease listed for lungtransplantation.
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Conclusions: Several variables were identified that predicted HRQL after lungtransplantation.
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In part II, we describe the postoperative management and results of lungtransplantation.
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Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome is the main limitation for long-term survival after lungtransplantation.
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Long-term survival after lungtransplantation remains profoundly limited by graft rejection.
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Success in neonatal lungtransplantation depends on the growth of the transplanted lung.