title: [Logistic, technic and postoperative complications of lung and heart-lung transplantations].
abstract: In France, the "Agence de la biomédecine" distributes lung grafts. "Ideal" criteria for lung donor selection are not always respected, driven by the scarcity of suitable donor lungs (10% deaths while waiting). In single lung transplantation, three anastomoses are performed (bronchus near the lobar carina, pulmonary artery, left atrium). For double lung transplantation (twice as frequent around the world), two single lung transplantations are successively performed through two separate anterolateral thoracotomies, often without cardiopulmonary bypass. Heart lung transplantations are now rare (2% around the world). Postoperative mortality has improved (between 10 and 15%): less severe primary graft dysfunctions, treatable with ECMO, fewer bronchial complications, improvement in the diagnosis of hyperacute humoral rejection, improvement in antiviral prophylaxis.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgie thoracique et groupe de transplantation pulmonaire, hôpital Foch, 40, rue Worth, 92150 Suresnes, France. p.bonnette@hopital-foch.org
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bonnette
mesh_terms: D016041:Heart-Lung Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016040:Lung Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology