Adult lung transplantation: technical considerations.
The technical details of lung transplantation have seen considerable refinement with two decades of experience. Recent efforts to expand the donor pool are an exciting development. The technical details of donor organ procurement and the implantation are discussed here with a note to common pitfalls encountered.
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Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
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D000328:Adult; D001926:Brain Death; D006801:Humans; D019520:Living Donors; D016040:Lung Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000379:methods