[Heart-lung transplantation, single lung and both lungs].
Following the improvement in surgical techniques and immunosuppression regimens as well as a better selection of recipients, an increasing number of heart-lung, single lung and double lung transplantations have been performed within the last decade. In the early stages, most candidates had advanced pulmonary hypertension. More recently, patients with end-stage lung disease have been successfully transplanted. Providing the allografts remain free of complications, long-term survivors may benefit of well preserved pulmonary function. However, acute rejection, obliterative bronchiolitis and infections are still a major cause of morbidity and mortality.
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Division de Pneumologie, CHUV-Lausanne.
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D001989:Bronchiolitis Obliterans / Q000209:etiology; D006084:Graft Rejection; D016041:Heart-Lung Transplantation / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000209:etiology; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology
La transplantation coeur-poumons, unipulmonaire et bipulmonaire.