title: Twenty-five-year survival after heart-lung transplantation: a milestone.
abstract: Limited information about long-term survivors of heart-lung transplant recipients exists. We report a 57-year-old man who has now survived 25 years after a heart-lung transplant. Initial induction and maintenance immunotherapy was rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin, cyclosporine, azathioprine, and methylprednisolone. This patient is currently alive and working 25 years later and has continued good function of the heart-lung graft,without evidence of bronchiolitis obliterans.
authors.affiliation: University of Arizona Health Sciences Center.
authors.forename: Jessica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rose
authors.forename: Hannah
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zimmerman
authors.forename: Romana
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Coelho-Anderson
authors.forename: Jack G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Copeland
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016041:Heart-Lung Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D016019:Survival Analysis; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome