Living-donor lobar lung transplantation with sparing of bilateral native upper lobes: a novel strategy.
A 44-year-old man became wheelchair-bound due to sever bronchiolitis obliterans caused by peripheral blood stem cell transplantation for acute myelogenous leukemia. His lung donors, his sister and his wife, were 17 cm shorter than him. He successfully underwent living-donor lobar lung transplantation with sparing of the bilateral native upper lobes to address the size mismatch. Ten months after the transplantation, the patient has returned to a normal lifestyle without supplemental oxygen.
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Takuji
T
Fujinaga
Toru
T
Bando
Daisuke
D
Nakajima
Jin
J
Sakamoto
Fengshi
F
Chen
Tsuyoshi
T
Shoji
Hiroaki
H
Sakai
Hisanari
H
Ishii
Senri
S
Miwa
Hiroshi
H
Date
D000328:Adult; D001827:Body Height; D049628:Body Size; D006801:Humans; D019520:Living Donors; D016040:Lung Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D016896:Treatment Outcome