[The significance of pulmonary artery angiography in the early postoperative phase following unilateral homologous lung transplantation].
In animal experiments there was carried out the homologous left-sided lung transplantation in quest of possibilities in therapy of the respiratory failure. Postoperative angiographies of the pulmonary artery took place in general anesthesia in 14 operated dogs to disclose vascular changes in the transplant at the early postoperative phase qualified by operation and rejection. The evaluation of the anastomosis of the pulmonary artery succeeded very well whereas the assertation about the venous anastomoses remains uncertain. A lengthening of the hemodynamic time phases by rejection was intimated previously in the early postoperative phase; statistical significance existed, however, only for the first venous filling. Furtheron, the perception of vascular morphological changes is possible in more distant advanced rejection processes. The angiography of the pulmonary artery in connection with the chest X-ray film and scintigraphic methods is of great importance for the evaluation of the transplant function especially for complications which result from the vascular system of the transplant.
D000818:Animals; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D006084:Graft Rejection; D016040:Lung Transplantation; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography
Die Bedeutung der Pulmonalis-Angiographie in der frühen postoperativen Phase nach unilateraler homologer Lungentransplantation.