Abstract
Lung transplantation has been successfully employed for a variety of obstructive lung diseases. Following successful application of combined heart-lung transplantation, double lung transplant appeared to offer potential advantages but was hampered by the frequent development of donor airway complications. During the past 2 years single lung transplantation has been successfully employed with increasing frequency in the management of nonseptic obstructive lung diseaes. Although early results are encouraging, long-term follow-up is necessary to determine the ultimate indications for single lung, double lung, and combined heart-lung transplantation in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 547-554+viii |
| Journal | Clinics in Chest Medicine |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 1990 |