title: First successful heart-lung transplantation in Japan: report of a case.
abstract: Although legislation regarding organ transplantation from brain-dead donors in Japan was approved in 1997, no heart-lung transplantation procedures were performed for some time. Herein, we report the first case of successful heart-lung transplantation in Japan. The recipient was a 35-year-old man with Eisenmenger syndrome, caused by a double outlet right ventricle, who had been suffering hemoptysis and continued NYHA class 3-4 symptoms for 66 months since being registered on the waiting list. He underwent heart-lung transplantation from a 30-year-old donor. The organ ischemic time was 247 min, the postoperative course was uneventful, and the patient was discharged 66 days after the transplant surgery.
authors: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2, Yamada-Oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan, sawa@surg1.med.osaka-u.ac.jp.
authors: Yoshiki
authors: Y
authors: Sawa
authors: Goro
authors: G
authors: Matsumiya
authors: Shigefumi
authors: S
authors: Shigemura
authors: Hiroyuki
authors: H
authors: Nishi
authors: Hajime
authors: H
authors: Ichikawa
authors: Masato
authors: M
authors: Minami
authors: Norihide
authors: N
authors: Fukushima
authors: Masayoshi
authors: M
authors: Inoue
authors: Takayoshi
authors: T
authors: Ueno
authors: Akiyoshi
authors: A
authors: Sawabatav
authors: Taichi
authors: T
authors: Sakaguchi
authors: Shunsuke
authors: S
authors: Saito
authors: Meinoshin
authors: M
authors: Okumura
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004310:Double Outlet Right Ventricle / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D004541:Eisenmenger Complex / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D016041:Heart-Lung Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D061646:Operative Time; D016896:Treatment Outcome