Case report: a left donor lung implanted in the recipient's right thorax for the therapy of pulmonary fibrosis.
A 68-year patient suffering from pulmonary fibrosis underwent single lung transplantation on April 4, 2005. Because the ipsilateral donor lung was severely damaged, we had to implant the contralateral lung--the left lung--to the right thorax, and finally this patient recovered.
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Department of General Thorax, No. 5 Hospital of WuXi, JiangSu Province, China. jingyuchen@hotmail.com
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Jing
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008168:Lung / Q000601:surgery*; D016040:Lung Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome