| pubmed-article:16612048 | pubmed:abstractText | Emphysema and pulmonary fibrosis force the patients to breathe at an abnormal lung volume, which alters the lengths of the respiratory muscles and thereby their work capability is reduced. After single-lung transplantation, muscle function is restored on the side of the transplant but it may be asymmetric to that on the side of the native diseased lung. | lld:pubmed |
