Successful double lung transplantation with a graft obtained from a methanol-poisoned donor.
A 25-year-old woman developed "brain death" 48 h after acute methanol poisoning. After the elimination of methanol and the correction of metabolic disorders, organ donation was discussed. The lungs were transplanted into a 46-year-old woman suffering from cystic "emphysematous-like" lesions as a complication of lymphangioleiomyomatosis. The procedure was not complicated, and we have an uneventful follow-up of > 12 months. In addition to the lungs, the kidneys and the liver were also removed and transplanted with success.
Evrard
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Department of Intensive Care and Lung Transplant Team, Cliniques Universitaires de Mont-Godinne, Yvoir, Belgium.
Hantson
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Ferrant
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Vanormelingen
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Mahieu
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D016040:Lung Transplantation; D018192:Lymphangioleiomyomatosis / Q000601:surgery; D000432:Methanol / Q000506:poisoning*; D008875:Middle Aged; D016377:Organ Transplantation; D012997:Solvents / Q000506:poisoning*; D014019:Tissue Donors
D012997:Solvents; D000432:Methanol