Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation bridging to living-donor lobar lung transplantation.
A 21-year-old man with pulmonary fibrosis and a 27-year-old woman with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension, who were in pulmonary hypertensive crisis, were successfully treated by using venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, followed by living-donor lobar lung transplantation. In both of the patients, bridging time of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to lung transplantation was 2 days, and both could be weaned from cardiopulmonary support immediately after transplantation in the operating room. No major complications were seen, including primary graft dysfunction. The cardiopulmonary functions of these patients markedly improved after living-donor lobar lung transplantation.
Department of Cancer and Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan.
Kentaroh
K
Miyoshi
Takahiro
T
Oto
Mikio
M
Okazaki
Masaomi
M
Yamane
Shinichi
S
Toyooka
Keiji
K
Goto
Yoshifumi
Y
Sano
Shunji
S
Sano
Shinichiro
S
Miyoshi
D000328:Adult; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000601:surgery*; D019520:Living Donors; D016040:Lung Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000601:surgery*; D055815:Young Adult