Lung Transplantation
Lung Transplantation and Cystic Fibrosis
... Lung transplantation surgery may take anywhere from five to 10 ...one lung to breathe while the other lung is ...first lung is removed. Then, the first donor lung is attached, ...
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Pulmonary arterial wall disease in COPD and interstitial lung diseases candidates for lung transplantation
... Interstitial lung disease; IVUSp: Intravascular ultrasound pulsatility; LTx: Lung transplantation; mPAP: Mean pulmonary arterial pressure; PAS: Pulmonary arterial stiffness; PAWP: Pulmonary ...
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Advanced pulmonary arterial hypertension: mechanical support and lung transplantation
... to transplantation and decreased the risk of waiting list mortality for many diseases [23, 24], including IPAH [25, ...following lung transplantation ...
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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a bridge to lung transplantation: analysis of Korean organ transplantation registry (KOTRY) data
... After lung transplantation, immediate complications developed in 48 ...from transplantation to hospital discharge was longer in the bridge-ECMO group ...
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Nontuberculous mycobacterial infection after lung transplantation: a report of four cases
... the lung structure, leading to decreased respiratory function ...after lung transplantation was not influenced by NTM in- fection [8, 9], though George et ...single lung transplantation ...
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Factors Associated with Lung Function Recovery at the First Year after Lung Transplantation
... Purpose: Post-operative pulmonary function is an important prognostic factor for lung transplantation. The purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting recovery of forced expiratory volume in 1 ...
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Lung Transplantation and Cystic Fibrosis: The Psychosocial Toll
... If it is agreed that a patient is a candidate for additional evaluation, the CF physician should have a discussion with the patient, outlining the reasons for consideration for lung transplantation. It ...
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The management of bronchus intermedius complications after lung transplantation: A retrospective study
... 132 lung transplantations, 12 patients (male/ female: 9/3) with mean age of 37 ± ...for lung trans- plantation were: cystic fibrosis 8 (67%), emphysema 3 (25%), and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis 1 ...after ...
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Double lung, unlike single lung transplantation might provide a protective effect on mortality and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome
... Fig. 5 Cumulative incidence of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) and mortality after lung transplantation (LTx) for the two different time periods 1990 – 2002 and 2003 – 2014. Our findings (Fig. 1) ...
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Lung transplantation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: patient selection and special considerations
... morbidity. Lung transplantation is one of the few treatments available for end-stage COPD with the potential to improve survival and quality of ...after lung transplantation remains ...
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Lung transplantation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
... for transplantation making these models potentially useful for identifying COPD patients most at risk for death and thus potential lung transplant ...and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) ...
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Lung transplantation in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a systematic review of the literature
... had lung transplantation from 2002 onward (BLT: ...a lung transplant found that one and five year survival was significantly greater following BLT ...between transplantation types (P = ...
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The role of epithelial-mesenchymal transition in the post-lung transplantation bronchiolitis obliterans
... macrophages. Conditions like oxidative stress and the im- balance of protease and antiprotease can lead to the release of many inflammatory mediators, such as TNF-α、IL- 6、IL-8、IL-1. The inflammatory mediators finally ...
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Reassessing the BODE score as a criterion for listing COPD patients for lung transplantation
... Background: The BODE score (incorporating body mass index, airflow obstruction, dyspnea and exercise capacity) is used for the timing of listing for lung transplantation (LTx) in COPD, based on survival ...
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Short term outcomes of cadaveric lung transplantation in ventilator dependent patients
... and lung transplantation technique The ECMO circuit consisted of a centrifugal pump, a hollow- fiber microporous membrane oxygenator, and percutaneous thin-wall cannula (Medtronic Inc, Anaheim, CA, USA), ...
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Morbidity and mortality of serious gastrointestinal complications after lung transplantation
... 205 lung transplant patients, with gastrointestinal factors being the direct cause of death in ...136 lung transplant patients, with gastrointes- tinal factors being the direct cause of death in three pa- ...
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Current perspectives on antibody-mediated rejection after lung transplantation
... after lung transplantation, it is difficult to determine from the published literature whether reported cases all had the same syndrome of allograft ...
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Extracorporeal life support as bridge to lung transplantation: a systematic review
... interstitial lung disease; IP: interstitial pneumonia; LAS: lung allocation score; LOS: length of stay; LTx: lung transplant; MOF: multi-organ failure; MV: mechanical ventilation; PE: pulmonary ...
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Working toward immune tolerance in lung transplantation
... in lung transplantation Immune tolerance can be defined in sever- al ...for lung transplant recipients, given the inherent challenges to allograft survival posed by constant environmen- tal exposure, ...
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Magnetisation transfer as a biomarker for chronic airway fibrosis in a mouse lung transplantation model
... that lung transplantation itself caused sig- nificant changes in MTR values, where lower MTR in the non-transplanted lungs were ...infiltrated lung tissue, which leads to a significantly higher MT ...
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