Paediatric lobar lung transplantation: addressing the paucity of donor organs.
Two children with advanced lung disease underwent successful cadaveric bilateral lobar lung transplantation, using lungs "cut down" from deceased adult donors - the first reported use of the technique in Australia. This approach, while it cannot address the lack of donor organs, may enable us to redress any size bias limiting paediatric lung transplantation.
Keating
Dominic T
DT
Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. d.keating@alfred.org.au
Westall
Glen P
GP
Marasco
Silvana F
SF
Burton
Jacquie H
JH
Buckland
Mark R
MR
Robertson
Colin F
CF
Williams
Trevor J
TJ
Snell
Gregory I
GI
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia; D002102:Cadaver; D002648:Child; D046148:Donor Selection; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D016040:Lung Transplantation / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000601:surgery; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous / Q000379:methods