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Original Source: Bronchial artery revascularization in lung transplantation: techniques, experience, and outcomes.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Lung transplantation (LTX) is routinely performed ignoring the bronchial arteries. In this article, we review the published world experience, including our own, of LTX with direct bronchial artery revascularization (BAR) and describe the anatomy of the bronchial arteries and our surgical technique. RECENT FINDINGS: The published experience of LTX with BAR consists of only a few small single-institution series, all with good success rates and outcomes. The bronchial artery anatomy will all...
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Lung cancer is the uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. Originating in the lungs, this growth may invade adjacent tissues and infiltrate beyond the lungs. Lung cancer, the most common ca...
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Medical rarity: Two double lung transplants in same family
Sarah Ridder and her brother John Grosvenor each have received double lung transplants. The transplants were necessary because the siblings had a progressive lung disease called pulmonary fibrosis tha...
St. Joseph's Hospital Sees Rapid Increase in Lung Transplantation
PHOENIX, Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Surgeons at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center today performed their 50th lung transplant this year, a remarkable number reached by only a h...
Preparation is everything – even for Lung transplants
Organ donation is a very emotive subject, with two key issues. Firstly the demand for organs far outstrips the supply (thanks to improved road safety and medical care). Secondly, finding matches for...
Organ Care System safe and feasible for lung transplant patients
The Lancet has published the initial series of successful lung transplants demonstrating the feasibility and safety of using the Organ Care System (OCS) Lung technology, at Hannover Medical School and...
Double transplants can be successful with donor lungs from heavy smokers
Lungs from carefully selected donors with a heavy smoking history can be used with good results in adult, double-lung transplants, according to a study released today at the 49th Annual Meeting of The...
Medicaid Factors into CF Lung Transplants (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) who are Medicaid recipients are less likely to be accepted for lung transplantation than those who are privately insured, a national cohort study...
Lung Transplant Hazard May Rise With Obese Recipients, Smoking Donors
TUESDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- Major risk factors for serious illness and death after a lung transplant include a donor who smoked and a recipient who is obese, according to a new study. Resea...
First Mother-to-Daughter Womb Transplants: Groundbreaking, but Ethical?
Swedish doctors have performed what they say are the first mother-to-daughter live donor womb transplants that could allow the infertile daughters to bear children. While considered a medical mileston...
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The Japanese Organ Transplant Law was amended, and the revised law took effect in July 2010 to overcome extreme donor shortage and to increase the availability of donor organs from brain-dead donors....
Influenza B virus transmission in recipients of kidney and lung transplants from an infected donor.
Lack of effect of intranigral transplants of a GABAergic cell line on absence seizures.
The substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNpr) is involved in controlling a variety of seizure phenomena. Intranigral transplants of GABAergic cells have been shown to decrease the severity of already es...
Pediatric Lung Transplantation.
OPINION STATEMENT: Lung transplantation in children is an effective treatment for end-stage pulmonary disease after all medical therapy has failed. It requires a huge investment in resources and absol...
Heart transplantation in children with a fontan procedure.
Previous studies have reported that children with a prior Fontan procedure have decreased survival after heart transplantation. We examined 190 primary pediatric heart transplants.
