Anesthetic experience in patient for single lung transplantation with previous contralateral pneumonectomy -A case report-.
A 48-year-old woman with cystic fibrosis and a previous left pneumonectomy had surgery planned for single lung transplantation under general anesthesia. Due to progressive dyspnea and recurrent respiratory infection, she could not maintain her normal daily life without lung transplantation. The anesthetic management and surgical procedure was expected to be difficult because of the left mediastinal shift and an asymmetric thorax after the left pneumonectomy, but the single lung transplantation was successfully done under cardiopulmonary bypass.
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Eulji University Hospital, Daejeon, Korea.
Ji-Hyun
JH
Chung
Seung-Cheol
SC
Cha
Jin-Hwan
JH
Hwang
Seong Chang
SC
Woo