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Single lung transplantation from a donor 8 months after double lung transplantation |
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| Authors: | D. Bobylev J. Salman W. Sommer F. Ius T. Siemeni M. Avsar C. Kühn A. Niehaus J. Gottlieb A. Haverich I. Tudorache G. Warnecke |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany;2. Member of the German Centre for Lung Research, Hannover, Germany;3. German Organ Transplantation Foundation (DSO), Frankfurt, Germany;4. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany |
| Abstract: | Scarcity of donors leads transplant surgeons to consider extended‐criteria lungs and occasionally to accept the unlikely. Here we report a case of successful single lung transplantation from a donor 8 months after double lung transplantation. |
| Keywords: | clinical research/practice donors and donation: extended criteria lung disease lung transplantation/pulmonology organ procurement |