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17981640

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-11-5
pubmed:abstractText
Although cadaveric lung transplantation (CLT) offers acceptable prospects for 5-year survival, chronic rejection and donor shortages remain major problems. In an effort to address the donor shortage issue, living-donor lobar lung transplantations (LDLLT) have been performed in some institutions. As of 2006, LDLLT has been performed in approximately 300 patients worldwide. The survival appears to be similar to or better than International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation registry data on CLT. Because of the possible serious complications after donor lobectomy, LDLLT should be performed only for very sick patients by a well-prepared program. This type of procedure can be applied to restrictive, obstructive, infectious, and hypertensive lung diseases for both pediatric and adult patients who would die soon otherwise.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1093-4715
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1433-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Current status and potential of living-donor lobar lung transplantation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cancer and Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School, Okayama, Japan. hdate@md.okayama-u.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review