Lung Transplantation for Pulmonary Vascular Disease

A successful lung transplant from a 3-year-old donor after controlled cardiac death followed by ex vivo lung perfusion: A case report

Marcos Galasso, Rachel D. Vanderlaan, Melinda Solomon, Christopher Caldarone, Shaf Keshavjee, Marcelo Cypel, Marc de PerrotUniversity of Toronto, Toronto and Hospital for Sick Children.Canada Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2019; 158: e149-e152DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.02.131 AbstractAbstract Not Available CategorySegmental Pulmonary Venous Disease. Without a Focus on Pulmonary HypertensionLung Transplantation for Pulmonary Vascular Disease Age […]

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Rapidly Progressive Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in a Paediatric Patient Treated with Lung Transplantation

Filip Baszkowski, Weronika Pelczar-Płachta, Nikola Pempera, Sylwia Sławek-Szmyt, Marta Kałuzna-Oleksy, Maciej Lesiak, Waldemar BobkowskiPoznan University of Medical Sciences.Poland DiagnosticsDiagnostics 2023; DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13203185 AbstractPulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare heterogeneous disorder in the paediatric population which is mostly associated with congenital heart disease. The management of paediatric idiopathic PAH (IPAH) is difficult due to insufficient comparative

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Technical problems in lung allotransplantation. Causes of pulmonary venous outflow obstruction

Gary H. Stevens, Decio M. Rangel, Yozo Yakeishi, Eric W. FonkalsrudUCLA School of Medicine.United States Archives of SurgeryArch Surg 1969; 99: 506-512DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1969.01340160086020 AbstractExperience in this laboratory with approximately 100 canine and primate lung allotransplantation operations over the past 18 months has made clear the fact that technical problems are the cause of a large number

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Pediatric lung transplantation. Indications, techniques, and early results

Thomas L. Spray, George B. Mallory, Charles B. Canter, Charles B. HuddlestonWashington University School of Medicine.United States Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1994; 107: 990-999DOI: Not Available AbstractFrom July 1990 to April 1993, 36 lung transplantations in 33 patients were performed in our pediatric transplant program (0.25 to 23 years, mean

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Lung Transplantation for Pulmonary Vascular Disease in Children: A United Network for Organ Sharing Analysis

Hosam F. Ahmed, Amalia Guzman-Gomez, Malika Desai, Alia Dani, David Morales, Paul J. Critser, Farhan Zafar, Don HayesCincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.United States Research SquareRes Sq 2023; DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3310701/v1 AbstractBackground: Pulmonary vascular disease (PVD) represents an important clinical indication for lung transplant (LTx) in infants, children, and adolescents. There is limited information on LTx outcomes in these

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Dismal lung transplant outcomes in children with tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia compared to Eisenmenger syndrome or pulmonary vein stenosis

R. Mark Grady, Sanjiv Gandhi, Stuart C. Sweet, Jingnan Mao, Charles B. HuddlestonWashington University School of Medicine.United States Journal of Heart and Lung TransplantationJ Heart Lung Transplant 2009; 28: 1221-1225DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2009.07.010 AbstractBackground: Certain congenital heart lesions in children can lead to irreversible lung disease thus making lung transplantation a therapeutic option. We retrospectively analyzed our experience with

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Use of Berlin EXCOR cannulas in both venovenous and venoarterial central extracorporeal membrane oxygenation configurations overcomes the problem of cannula instability while bridging infants and young children to lung transplant

N. Adam Stephens, Corey A. Chartan, Maria C. Gazzaneo, James A. Thomas, Shailendra Das, George B. Mallory, Ernestina Melicoff, Adam M. Vogel, Amanda Parker, Emily Hermes, Jeffrey S. Heinle, E. Dean McKenzie, Ryan D. ColemanBaylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital.United States Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery TechniquesJTCVS Tech 2023; 18: 111-120DOI: 10.1016/j.xjtc.2023.02.004 AbstractObjectives: Infants

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Bilateral lung transplantation for pediatric pulmonary arterial hypertension: perioperative management and one-year follow-up

Thomas Jack, Julia Carlens, Franziska Diekmann, Hosan Hasan, Philippe Chouvarine, Nicolaus Schwerk, Carsten Müller, Ivonne Wieland, Igor Tudorache, Gregor Warnecke, Murat Avsar, Alexander Horke, Fabio Ius, Dmitry Bobylev, Georg HansmannHannover Medical School. European Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disease Network. University Hospital of Zürich. Ruprecht-Karls-University. Germany and Switzerland Frontiers in Cardiovascular MedicineFront Cardiovasc Med 2023; DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2023.1193326 AbstractBackground: Bilateral

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Successful pediatric single-lung transplantation with previous contralateral pneumonectomy, using controlled “donation after cardiac death” lung, for congenital pulmonary vein stenosis

Amit Pawale, Michael McKean, John Dark, Asif HasanFreeman Hospital.United Kingdom Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2010; 139: e125-e126DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.06.006 AbstractAbstract Not Available CategorySegmental Pulmonary Venous Disease. Without a Focus on Pulmonary HypertensionSurgical and Catheter-mediated Interventions for Pulmonary Vascular DiseaseLung Transplantation for Pulmonary Vascular Disease Age Focus: Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disease Fresh or

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Cardiopulmonary magnetic resonance imaging in children after lung transplantation: preliminary observations

Lars Grosse-Wortmann, Shi-Joon Yoo, Melinda Solomon, Christopher K. Macgowan, Shaf Keshavjee, Hartmut GrasemannThe Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto.Canada Journal of Heart and Lung TransplantationJ Heart Lung Transplant 2011; 30: 1294-1298DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2011.07.008 AbstractBackground: Lung transplantation carries a guarded prognosis and is burdened by short-term and long-term complications that affect the airway, lungs, and vasculature. In

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