TY - JOUR
T1 - Lung transplantation
T2 - how we do it
AU - Murala, John Santosh
AU - Hanif, Hashim Muhammad
AU - Peltz, Matthias
AU - Cheruku, Sreekanth Reddy
AU - Huffman, Lynn Custer
AU - Hackmann, Amy Elizabeth
AU - Jessen, Michael Erik
AU - Ring, William Steves
AU - Wait, Michael Alton
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank Jenson Kuriakose for providing a detailed list of operative instruments and supplies, Omar Harihar and many OR staff who helped with providing intraoperative photographs, and Lorie Gavulic for producing the illustrations.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - Lung transplantation is considered the gold standard for patients with chronic end-stage pulmonary disease. However, due to the complexity of management and relatively lower median survival as compared to other solid organs, many programs across the world have been slow to adopt the same. In our institution, we started lung transplantation in September 1990. And since then, we performed close to 900 lung transplantations. Here, we describe in detail the operative steps adopted in our institution for a successful lung transplantation. There have been very few variations over the years. We believe that having a standardized technique is one of the important features for success of a lung transplant program.
AB - Lung transplantation is considered the gold standard for patients with chronic end-stage pulmonary disease. However, due to the complexity of management and relatively lower median survival as compared to other solid organs, many programs across the world have been slow to adopt the same. In our institution, we started lung transplantation in September 1990. And since then, we performed close to 900 lung transplantations. Here, we describe in detail the operative steps adopted in our institution for a successful lung transplantation. There have been very few variations over the years. We believe that having a standardized technique is one of the important features for success of a lung transplant program.
KW - End-stage pulmonary disease
KW - Lung transplantation
KW - Operative technique
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U2 - 10.1007/s12055-021-01218-w
DO - 10.1007/s12055-021-01218-w
M3 - Review article
C2 - 34566281
AN - SCOPUS:85115099868
SN - 0970-9134
VL - 37
SP - 454
EP - 475
JO - Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
JF - Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
ER -