title: Single lung transplantation in India: an initial experience.
abstract: The science of lung transplantation has evolved from an experimental procedure, to be accepted as a legitimate mainstream therapy for patients with end-stage pulmonary disease. Now lung transplantation offers patients with end-stage lung disease acceptable quality of life and matches a 5-year survival rate of other solid organ transplants. In the present report, we present our initial experience in performing two single lung transplantations done in our centre.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology, Global Hospital and Health City, Chennai, India. drrajasaravanan@gmail.com
authors.forename: Raja Saravanan
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Elumalai
authors.forename: Ganesh
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Somasundaram
authors.forename: Kirthivasan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vaidyanathan
authors.forename: Rajesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Venkatraman
authors.forename: Madhusankar
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nainar
authors.forename: Vijil
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rahulan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D016040:Lung Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male